Is our media a strategic enemy?

When our media jump on allegations of U.S. or allies’ wrongdoing on the field of battle, especially when coming from known suspect sources, the media is not doing its job of informing – its excuse for shoddy journalism. Quality journalism would require thoroughly vetting one's sources, and investigating the facts. Tabloid journalism is working directly for our strategic enemies. Our enemies know well how eager our media is for headlines, and how gullible or agenda-driven it is, and take full advantage.

I realize these are harsh words, but how else should a citizen consider the behavior of most of our major media after its stampede to judgment on Haditha, and now the Gaza beach explosion in which Israel was falsely held to wanton blame.

For a more complete detailing of the facts about the Gaza fraud, go here for Honest Reporting.

Then wait to see what apologies, corrections, and more accurate news stories appear in the major media, if any, and how far back in the pages. The damage has already been done, both to the U.S. and its allies. The enemies won, and our media did it. We all lose when such tabloid journalism is tolerated.

SEE this for the comparable behavior, though he admits to knowing nothing, of a major NGO spokesman.

UPDATE: The testimony by John Eastman before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on May 26, 2006 is in Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal. It must all be read. Here’s the concluding paragraph:

Every citizen, including--particularly including--those employed with major media organs have a responsibility to prevent ongoing operational secrets from falling into the hands of our enemies by complying with the law regarding classified information. It is one of those "basic and simple duties" of citizenship that rests equally "on taxi drivers, Justices, and the New York Times." We may never know how great the damage to our national security the recent disclosures of classified, highly-sensitive intelligence-gathering information have caused, but with the seriousness of the threat to our lives and liberty posed by terrorist organizations such as Al Qaeda, it is certainly the right, and may well be the duty, of the executive to prosecute those responsible for them.