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billonlogan
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Let us all come together as Canadians and proudly support the grassroots effort brought to Petawawa by the wives of two men serving in the Canadian Forces. The concept of wearing something red - whether a red shirt, jacket, cap, bandana or whatever - every Friday is meant to let the soldiers and their spouses and children know they are not alone. We appreciate the sacrifices they are making on our behalf. We thank them for their service to our country and their fight for peace and justice wherever in the world they are sent.
As long as you don't mind some strong language, machine guns and explosions, check out our troops engaged in Afghanistan. There's a whole section available at YouTube with the right search criteria.
I find it astounding that none of this is showing up on CTV, CBC, or CanWest newscasts, despite the recent completion of Operation Medusa, the most sustained combat involving Canadian troops since the Korean War. It's not like there's a shortage of actual pointy-end soldiering to film and air.
Here's my question: are the embedded reporters and their camera crews not following the troops off the base in Kandahar when they go into the field to fight, are the producers at the various television networks keeping the film in the can because they don't think it will sell advertising, or is there some editorializing going on to present an intentionally incomplete picture of what's happening in Afghanistan to the Canadian people?
I don't know the answer to that question. I suspect it's a combination of the first two options: the journalists don't get out in the field with the troops often enough, and when they do, all their producers will air are short clips and soundbites. I hope we haven't sunk so low that this is all about brazen manipulation of the imagery.
All I know is that we sure see a lot of the ramp ceremonies for the fallen, and not much else from the network news.
As long as you don't mind some strong language, machine guns and explosions, check out our troops engaged in Afghanistan. There's a whole section available at YouTube with the right search criteria.
I find it astounding that none of this is showing up on CTV, CBC, or CanWest newscasts, despite the recent completion of Operation Medusa, the most sustained combat involving Canadian troops since the Korean War. It's not like there's a shortage of actual pointy-end soldiering to film and air.
Here's my question: are the embedded reporters and their camera crews not following the troops off the base in Kandahar when they go into the field to fight, are the producers at the various television networks keeping the film in the can because they don't think it will sell advertising, or is there some editorializing going on to present an intentionally incomplete picture of what's happening in Afghanistan to the Canadian people?
I don't know the answer to that question. I suspect it's a combination of the first two options: the journalists don't get out in the field with the troops often enough, and when they do, all their producers will air are short clips and soundbites. I hope we haven't sunk so low that this is all about brazen manipulation of the imagery.
All I know is that we sure see a lot of the ramp ceremonies for the fallen, and not much else from the network news.