Sept 3, 2014: Media Matters: What Is George Will Hiding?
"I think that matters," Edward Wasserman, dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, said about Will disclosing if he was paid. "We know that the guy is a kingmaker and has had off-screen dealings with Republican notables going back to Reagan and we know that that is part of the way he views his role as a thought leader. I understand it may lead into entanglements, but it seems to me that there is a certain transparency. I don't like the idea of him taking money on the side."
"I think that matters," Edward Wasserman, dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, said about Will disclosing if he was paid. "We know that the guy is a kingmaker and has had off-screen dealings with Republican notables going back to Reagan and we know that that is part of the way he views his role as a thought leader. I understand it may lead into entanglements, but it seems to me that there is a certain transparency. I don't like the idea of him taking money on the side."
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Jan 14, 2014: Syndicated Columnist Edward Wasserman penned an article titled "Media mask disregard of civilian war suffering." In it he posits an emotionally charged proposition that suggest our media is not focusing enough on the civilian victims and casualties of war: "Why do the media have so little place in their editorial imaginations for the pain of these wars when the people hurting aren’t ours? Why do they dwell on a bruised fist while ignoring the face it shattered?" Though likely heartfelt it is hardly reality felt. Unless American journalists are on the ground there during those skirmishes it's not likely that other casualties outside of our own military will not get much press attention. At least not from our press, but neither should we be obligated to do so. These countries generally have a press which will regard them, much like our press will regard events which affect civilians on our own soil. It might very well be nice if the media could cover all things all the time, but it is not practical.
Jan 6, 2014: ...........................Edward Wasserman (Miami Herald) writes: "Just before Christmas I heard a report on public radio concerning “moral injury” among Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans. That’s the psychic trauma caused by acting or witnessing acts that conflict with core values — brutalizing prisoners, for instance, or killing children. A push is on to recognize moral injury as a distinct condition within Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and treat it with customized interventions. The pain that the soldier in the report suffered, after he and his buddies wiped out an Iraqi family of five whose car inexplicably failed to slow for a checkpoint, needs a different label and more calibrated care than other post-combat miseries that afflict soldiers."
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