The Laughing Wolf

Plain and Simple: Moral Cowardice

September 11 is upon us, and the major broadcast networks have caved. There will be no special remembrances, no replay of the horror, no reminder of the unjust and unprovoked attacks upon America.

Others have said it, and said it well: We were at war before this, but few realized it. There surely was no hint of it in the alleged news coverage of The Media. Just as they failed before, they fail again and for many the same reasons: arrogance, intolerance, ignorance, and blatant bias.

They have tried their own version of spin on this, and it has failed miserably. So, rather than deal with the reality, they will ignore it.

We will not ignore it, nor will we forget it for what it is and was, any more than we have forgotten Pearl Harbor. While it is the subject of a much longer post, the push by The Media for defense is a mistake. Just ask the French how well the Maginot line worked, and why we have had to save them at least twice in the last century. We can do perfect homeland security, of course, but at the cost of all our individual and group freedoms – and the fanatics will have won by fiat.

No, let us remember this day, remember those who died: the innocent, the police, the firemen, the soldiers, and the others who gave their lives trying to or actually saving others. The people who jumped when there was no other choice. The people who tried to fight back, and in dying kept worse from happening.

What the media is doing by its collective decision not to do right by this day is nothing less than complete and total moral and intellectual cowardice.

LW