Casualties in Afstan: Good news at 10
That is at the bottom of page A10 of the Globe and Mail's Ontario edition. Nice job of burying the good news, editors--when every death makes the front page:
So much for "pro-active" combat. At least the Globe ran a story; as far as I can see no other Canadian media did except the London Free Press. That paper ran a Sun media piece that the Sun papers themselves seem to have ignored. And that piece does not note the major decline in the number of wounded from 2006 to 2007.
Back to the Globe. The first expert it turns to for comment is, of course, the egregious Steve Staples (read the article quoted above for what he says). Enough suggested about the orientation of so many of our journalists; I wonder how many have read this April 2006 piece of his, typical of this "expert's" Weltanschauung:
The number of Canadian soldiers wounded in battle dropped significantly last year as direct gun battles with the Taliban appeared to decrease.
The Canadian Forces decided last fall that, for operational reasons, it would provide annual, rather than weekly, reports on military personnel hurt on overseas deployment.
The report made public yesterday showed that in 2006, 180 Canadian soldiers received medical treatment for wounds directly attributable to combat - including those who were injured by improvised explosive devices or hit by friendly fire, and people suffering from acute psychological trauma. In 2007, that number fell to 84...
So much for "pro-active" combat. At least the Globe ran a story; as far as I can see no other Canadian media did except the London Free Press. That paper ran a Sun media piece that the Sun papers themselves seem to have ignored. And that piece does not note the major decline in the number of wounded from 2006 to 2007.
Back to the Globe. The first expert it turns to for comment is, of course, the egregious Steve Staples (read the article quoted above for what he says). Enough suggested about the orientation of so many of our journalists; I wonder how many have read this April 2006 piece of his, typical of this "expert's" Weltanschauung:
Canada's military-corporate complex and its services rendered to George W.Bush
posted by Mark, Ottawa at 1:21 p.m.
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As we ponder our role in Afghanistan, here's a story about what we can expect and much worse when Layton allows the Taliban back into power.
The images in the Basra police file are nauseating: Page after page of women killed in brutal fashion — some strangled to death, their faces disfigured; others beheaded. All bear signs of torture.
The women are killed, police say, because they failed to wear a headscarf or because they ignored other “rules” that secretive fundamentalist groups want to enforce.
“Fear, fear is always there,” says 30-year-old Safana, an artist and university professor. “We don’t know who to be afraid of. Maybe it’s a friend or a student you teach. There is no break, no security. I don’t know who to be afraid of.”
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/02/08/iraq.women/index.html
And the Taliban makes these guys look like a Benevolent Society.
...why get on G&M's case about putting every death on the cover? It's business. Sick and sad one, but what do you expect from a trash tabloi, err, paper?
Sex and death sell copies, and they have a business to run.
Unfortunately it is also controlled by supply and demand. If so many people wouldn't read (and quote) from it maybe they'll change their ways when the bottom line starts shrinking.
It's like everyone quotes CBC. Who listens to that empty brass sound anyway?
What is a Globe? I get my my Mail from the Post Office! Then I keep up and tune in the truth in news on the "NEW" medium. I don't like recycling paper thats written in Lenin type let alone on Marx toilet paper.
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