When alleged journalist Michael Kelly died, I said nothing because “if you can’t say anything nice,” etc.
But now I’ll noted that he was a neocon shill whose enthusiastic cheerleading (Sis! Boom! Bah!) for the Iraq invasion helped in causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians, just so he could report from a Humvee. Why journalists feel the need to lionize these pompous assholes is beyond me. I guess they all liked the same wine or something.
Here’s a quaint concept, “an informed public.” For example the U.S. (Obama) and Korea completed what is called the Leap Year Agreement in early December, 2011. (The North would stop all nuclear activity and missile development in exchange for food.) The deal was scheduled to be signed by both parties on December 18, 2011. Kim Jong-il died on December 17, 2011 of a heart attack the day before the signing. Riiiigght. Since then the Korean military, which is actually in charge of the country, has been playing silly games. And the U.S. played right into their hands by staging the largest joint military exercise on the Korean Peninsula since the Korean War. This is a case of the dumb leading the blind and vice versa. Where is our reporting on this?