March 11, 2005

The hypocrisy of the Army Times

By Douglas Hanson
The Old Guard of the legacy media is crumbling before our eyes, in large part because of the blogsphere and other alternative media.  This is no less the case for the Army Times, which has finally published a series of articles and an editorial on military bloggers.  In anticipation of this well—deserved recognition, Mil—bloggers such as Blackfive have been tracking the development of the Army Times stories that were just published Wednesday. If the Mil—bloggers were expecting the Army Times to do anything different than the usual suspects in the major media, they will be sorely disappointed.  It should come as no surprise that the Army Times would publish a smarmy editorial that merely parrots the views of their mainstream brethren.  And, given the Army Times' previous editorial stances, the editorial proves that it's digging in to stave off its inevitable demise. The Army Times is part of the Military Times, a subsidiary of Gannett...(Read Full Article)