Originally posted by _Schadenfreude_
He's lucky he didn't get turned into a blonde female so that the Pentagon could whip up a little mindless patriotic fervour - guess it was easier to hand out medals to Pvt Lynch than worry about little things like facts and the truth.
No offense but you really should learn the facts before spouting off. The stories of Lynch's injuries and how she was captured was all completely the makings of the media. The Pentagon never released any information on how she was captured or the wounds received. The only thing the Pentagon could be considered guilty of is not clarifying the false media reports which were based on reports from the embedded reporters and from Iraqi accounts.
If the BBC was so truthful and non-biased in their reporting, why is it then the BBC was taken off of all the Royal Naval ships? Even the senior BBC correspondent during the war got up and apologized during a military press briefing for the BBC's apparent bias in their reporting when he found out his editors were changing his stories to reflect the war in a negative light.
So I guess you are correct, why should the BBC let things like the facts and truth stand in the way of their reporting.
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