Tuesday, April 06, 2010
Phil Bronstein Parodies Himself.
Grandpa was once a war reporter. He keeps telling us, you know.
I ran back to my hotel room, the smell of blood, fear and rebellion still fresh in my head.
Oh, you tell such nice fireplace stories, pops. And what experience did Phil bring back from war coverage? It depends It's complicated, it's nuanced. Yawn.
So was any of the killing justified? War is a dizzying, murky, hyper-adrenalized maze. In the field of battle, there are facts to be had and truths to be revealed. But even with the magic of digital revelations sling-shot across all bandwidths, the answer has to be: depends. Depends on some things even second-by-second video can't uncover.
Phil, artist of moral relativism! Phil: depends is the answer to leaks, not to wikileaks. At least, we know what's on your mind, grandpa. Don't forget to pick up a pack at walgreens. Oh, and killings: justified? No. See, that's easy.
Soldiers snickering while shooting journalists and kids looks bad, no question.
No shit, Sherlock.
My favorite quote of the week was from the refreshingly blunt General Stanley McChrystal about civilian deaths in Afghanistan: "We have shot an amazing number of people, but...none has ever proven to be a threat."
Except you take the quote totally out of context, you misleading journalist you. McChrystal is talking about a specific type of civilian deaths of cars approaching road checks.
So what's the truth of this event? Investigations will follow. Still capitated heads may roll. Truth will be elusive, as always.
Of course. Truth has to be elusive, since one should not ever question the awesome war in Iraq that Phil enabled; recall that Phil diminished the anti-war demonstrations in the Chron; recall that Phil fired a tech columnist for having anti-war opinions. Phil will make sure that no judgment is passed, don't worry.
We'll reprint a commenter who puts it better than we can:
'Depends'? 'Truth will be elusive, as always'? 'sorting things out is near impossible'? BUT 'transparency is the victor here'??? What a GUTLESS writer you are. Everything's murky, huh? How politically safe of you to fail to see and/or report anything clearly. If everything is just one big hodgepodge to you, I strongly suggest you do the world of information-seekers a huge favor by getting out of Dodge and finding another line of work.
I ran back to my hotel room, the smell of blood, fear and rebellion still fresh in my head.
Oh, you tell such nice fireplace stories, pops. And what experience did Phil bring back from war coverage? It depends It's complicated, it's nuanced. Yawn.
So was any of the killing justified? War is a dizzying, murky, hyper-adrenalized maze. In the field of battle, there are facts to be had and truths to be revealed. But even with the magic of digital revelations sling-shot across all bandwidths, the answer has to be: depends. Depends on some things even second-by-second video can't uncover.
Phil, artist of moral relativism! Phil: depends is the answer to leaks, not to wikileaks. At least, we know what's on your mind, grandpa. Don't forget to pick up a pack at walgreens. Oh, and killings: justified? No. See, that's easy.
Soldiers snickering while shooting journalists and kids looks bad, no question.
No shit, Sherlock.
My favorite quote of the week was from the refreshingly blunt General Stanley McChrystal about civilian deaths in Afghanistan: "We have shot an amazing number of people, but...none has ever proven to be a threat."
Except you take the quote totally out of context, you misleading journalist you. McChrystal is talking about a specific type of civilian deaths of cars approaching road checks.
So what's the truth of this event? Investigations will follow. Still capitated heads may roll. Truth will be elusive, as always.
Of course. Truth has to be elusive, since one should not ever question the awesome war in Iraq that Phil enabled; recall that Phil diminished the anti-war demonstrations in the Chron; recall that Phil fired a tech columnist for having anti-war opinions. Phil will make sure that no judgment is passed, don't worry.
We'll reprint a commenter who puts it better than we can:
'Depends'? 'Truth will be elusive, as always'? 'sorting things out is near impossible'? BUT 'transparency is the victor here'??? What a GUTLESS writer you are. Everything's murky, huh? How politically safe of you to fail to see and/or report anything clearly. If everything is just one big hodgepodge to you, I strongly suggest you do the world of information-seekers a huge favor by getting out of Dodge and finding another line of work.
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