More to the story than Seattle wants to hear

Or rather, more than Seattle's reporter Susan Paynter wants you to hear.

Stephen Spruiell of NRO's new Media Blog expands upon what he wrote last Friday about a highly one-sided story on Seattle's Marine Corps recruitment efforts. The original column indiscriminately throws around inflammatory language like "desperate" efforts and even "kidnapping."

I did a little digging of my own. This same reporter has written columns about our military before without quoting a single military source. In fact, she seems to favor one-sided accounts from those civilians who've become disillusioned with the military, especially widows and parents of dead Soldiers and Marines. I found these three columns from the last year in about ten minutes. Not one quotes an active duty american military member, all focus on the grief and worry of civilians.

A soldier's wife blasts Bush for 'backdoor' draft
October 18, 2004

A mom's internal struggle when her son decides to enlist
September 20, 2004

A folded flag can't cover the wounds of war
June 21, 2004

It would seem to me that Paynter has a history of telling just one side of the story.