RollingStone.

Godfather. wrote:

rollingstone should have never printed that story knowing that a man could loose his command because of it.
back in the old day's this would have never happend , the media knew what and what not to print.. I will never buy rollingstone again.

Godfather.

I disagree whole heartedly with that... isn't the right supposed to support the first amendment?

Godfather. wrote:

rollingstone should have never printed that story knowing that a man could loose his command because of it.
back in the old day's this would have never happend , the media knew what and what not to print.. I will never buy rollingstone again.

Godfather.

I think you mean lose.

loose lips sink ships.

Dirtie_Frank wrote:

Any way RS is a rag. I had a thread that was locked because of bickering, they did not even have one PJ song in the top 500, when the likes of R Kelly and Lady Gaga are in it.

One thing that we on the moving train can agree 100% on, it that that is a bullshit list

polaris_x wrote:

Jason P wrote:

I have a bigger problem with The Washington Post releasing top-secret reports to the public then someone being interviewed by Rolling Stone magazine. I appreciate the freedom of speech and press, but releasing top secret reports treads the thin line of committing treason in my book.

what if those top secret reports shows that your gov't, using your tax dollars were involved in illegal activities?

I have a bigger problem with giving the enemy insight to our overall strategy that will allow them to change tactics, thus dragging the war out and costing more taxpayer money, and more importantly the loss of civilian and military lives.

Free Speech is a double edged sword... can be good, can be bad. The same holds true regarding the truth.
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My belief is the Press should serve as the 4th Branch of government to expose things our government is doing to us, rather than doing for us. I also believe that journalism should be the founding principle of the press, not sensationalism, political partisanship, opinions or entertainment value.
But, I also believe the press should consider the nature of the truth. If, for example, there is a weakness in the security of our weapons grade uranium storage facilities, I do not think the press should reveal those weaknesses to us. I believe the competent thing to do wuld be to reveal the weaknesses to the executive branch and only reveal the truth of our mistakes, after those weaknesses have been fortified.
I believe we, the people of this nation, deserve to be told the truth about our government... even if that truth blemishes our image of how we see ourselves. But, I believe the truth, at times, needs to be sheltered from us... such as instructions on hacking computer systems and bypassing failsafe systems to launch a ballistic missile aimed at China.
The sword cuts both ways.

I quit my subscription to RS when they called Cobain (when he was alive) the voice of a generation, as I'm guessing he would have hated to be labeled that. Anything to sell a mag. They stopped being relevant about the time when MTV stopped playing videos. I guess they both went out hand in hand.

Godfather. wrote:

rollingstone should have never printed that story knowing that a man could loose his command because of it.
back in the old day's this would have never happend , the media knew what and what not to print.. I will never buy rollingstone again.

Godfather.

What happened to personal responsibility? Why does a supposedly smart guy who stands to lose his command say things so detrimental to his self-interests? McChrystal knew what he was saying and to whom he was saying it. He knew RS would publish what he said. If he is stupid enough to say things of this nature to a reporter for an internationally published magazine, where does the stupid enough end? Right where it did end.