02/06: TIME reporter a Communist Spy
Category: America and the World
Posted by: an okie gardener
This story should be huge. A reporter for TIME magazine in Vietnam, a man also used by several other western news agencies and reporters, was a communist agent who fed information to North Vietnam and fed propaganda to news agencies. Lind from Instapundit.
Unfortunately, it will be a cold, cold day in hell before the Sunday morning talk shows fixate on this topic, or CNN devotes extensive time to it.
Think about it: the American media was largely responsible for public opinion turning against the war in Vietnam (e.g., the Tet Offensive which was a stunning defeat for the Viet Cong and NVA was portrayed in the Western press as a stunning defeat for us). And in the midst of the reporting from Vietnam was a Vietnamese communist agent.
How many of the stringers and reporters used in the Middle East today take their orders from Islamic radicals?
Unfortunately, it will be a cold, cold day in hell before the Sunday morning talk shows fixate on this topic, or CNN devotes extensive time to it.
Think about it: the American media was largely responsible for public opinion turning against the war in Vietnam (e.g., the Tet Offensive which was a stunning defeat for the Viet Cong and NVA was portrayed in the Western press as a stunning defeat for us). And in the midst of the reporting from Vietnam was a Vietnamese communist agent.
How many of the stringers and reporters used in the Middle East today take their orders from Islamic radicals?
A Waco Farmer wrote:
Couple of Comments:
1. Kudos to NPR for covering this story. National Public Radio is much-maligned and embattled in the conservative blogosphere. Much of what is written about them is true (they are left-leaning in sensibility), but the other side is seldom mentioned: that they cover everything. This story is a case in point. I heard about this on NPR a month ago.
2. I am putting down a lot of markers lately--but I have notes on my desk at this moment to consider the role of Halberstam and the legion of reporters he created and how this new reality impacts the possibility of the USA ever winning a war again. We'll see how it writes--but, at this point, I am not sanguine about my conclusions.