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Knowing the anti-military bias of the major media networks I was not gong to
watch the story of Roberts
Ridge. But a good friend who served in SF/Special Ops in MACVSOG on the Ho
Chi Minh trail called me from the East coast and said I should catch it
(later in the West coast time zone). They had a few subtle digs, but the
outstanding heroism, efficient professionalism and leadership of the Captain
on the ground (Capt. Felt?) of the Special Operations personnel dwarfed it.
About time!

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   ....[1]anti-military bias has been demonstrated by the Media Research
   Center. Hours and hours and hours of coverage have been devoted to Abu
   Ghraib and to Haditha. Less than an hour is all the networks could
   find time for, to tell us about our heroes and their feats.

     Since the war on terror began, the military has awarded top medals
     to 20 individuals, four of whom died on the battlefield in either
     Afghanistan or Iraq. The highest award, the Medal of Honor, was
     given to the family of Army Sergeant First Class Paul Ray Smith,
     who lost his life while protecting more than 100 fellow soldiers
     during the battle for Baghdad's airport in April 2003. Nineteen
     servicemen received the second highest honors, all for
     "extraordinary heroism" in combat. The list includes two fallen
     members of the Air Force who were awarded the Air Force Cross;
     three soldiers who merited the Distinguished Service Cross; and
     three sailors and 11 Marines who received the Navy Cross, one
     posthumously.
     Most of these men have never been recognized by ABC, CBS or NBC.
     None have been given more than a fraction of the attention that the
     latest allegations against the military have received. And while
     the networks have told of acts of heroism by others in the military
      with Sergeant Leigh Ann Hester of the Kentucky National Guard
     getting the most coverage among those honored with a Silver Star 
     none of those other positive stories have interested the networks
     as much as news of possible military misconduct.

   In the past three weeks, the major TV networks have dedicated three
   hours and thirty minutes to the allegations of war crimes in Haditha
   (even though they knew nothing of the Marines' side of the story until
   yesterday.) In the past five years, those same networks have dedicated
   52 minutes to all twenty of the top heroes of the war. 41.26 minutes
   of that was dedicated to Paul Smith (and well deserved -- Smith was
   the first and -- so far -- only Medal of Honor recipient of the war.)
   The rest of them have basically been ignored.
   I watched, on Dateline NBC on Sunday night, [2]the story of Roberts
   Ridge -- the first time that story has been told by a major TV news
   program.
   Bloggers have been covering these stories from the beginning of the
   war. Why doesn't the media? Because they choose not to.
   Nothing could condemn them more than that.

References

   1. http://www.mrc.org/realitycheck/2006/fax20060612.asp
   2. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8828472/from/RSS/