Journalists Gone Bad: Scapegoating Burners For Falsehood and Profit
As far as I can tell from this article, Burning Man vs. burning pride in America, Melanie Morgan had a bad day in post burn traffic. In retaliation, she decides to use her pen to belittle Burning Man and call burners naughty names like “hippy” (pa-leeze… at least do better than that tired and irrelevant term) only to forward her personal cause of beating the flimsy drums of war in Iraq.
Well done, Melanie! Keep up the good “journalism” of lame comparison and false hopes to keep our men and women under deadly fire in your favored war of lies and deceptions.
Perhaps this MoveOn member letter from a sergeant who has served in Iraq, about the largely shattered “surge” and the continued falsehoods from the blind hawks in the White House, will be more enlightening: John Bruhns – I Was There (PDF)
Comment by buzzn
September 9, 2007 @ 6:01 pm
Right… she does mention all the Tahoes and Expeditions but I don’t see her complaining about them, only about people expressing themselves in an “unconventional” fashion… apparently there is something wrong with that.
But the bottom line theme seems to be that nobody should do anything except, everyone should pay attention to the war. Yes, the conclusions ought to be, all those people driving RVs and boats on Labor Day need to cease immediately, and spend time supporting the troops! Except she seems to think Burning Man, a tiny fraction of the traffic activity on Labor Day, is the biggest offender. Well, if she thinks for a second that most burners are unaware of the war, immense travesty that it is, she is mistaken.