Back to Michael Brenner's take on how our media hysteria is not helping, "There is a more general lesson to be learned from this latest exercise in ad hoc policy-making by press conference. The insistence of senior officials to speak at length in public on these complex, sensitive matters when there is no set policy is inimical to serious planning and diplomacy. If they feel compelled to react to events to satisfy the media and an agitated populace, they should just say a few well-chosen words and then declare themselves on the way to an important meeting -- preferably not in Martha's Vineyard.
"Silence, though, is taken to be tantamount to death in the egocentric media age where image is all -- confusing random motion with focused action."
Amen.
Why look back? No one wants to learn anything! Iraq 2 was a disaster. Can we expect Iraq 3 to be any better? Afghanistan is a disaster. Israel failed in its aims in Gaza, whatever bloody "urban renewal" was imposed at a high human toll. Libya is a mess.
Knock, knock: raise your hand if you think Syria will become our next miracle?
News Dissector Danny Schechter blogs at Newsdissector.net and works on Mediachannel.org.
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