The 26th April 1937 saw Hitler’s Condor Legion bomb the Northern Spanish Basque town of Guernica. It was seen as a proving ground for the Nazi party’s new Luftwaffe and much experience was to be garnered from the Spanish Civil War. The Condor Legion was led by Oberstleutnant Wolfram Freiherr Von Richthofen(The Red Baron’s cousin) and under Nationalist control. Guernica was behind the front lines and was a town of about 7000 population. The bombing was in waves and exact casualty reports are unknown, but probably numbered around 1000. The Legion was a mix of Fighters and Medium Bombers, all names we know: 109s(B not Es), HE 51s (biplanes), DO 17s, JU52s and HE111s. There were also some Italian Fiat Fighters and the versatile SM79.
The outcome of the bombing was to demoralise the townsfolk and lead to its falling to Franco’s Nationalists on the 29th April.
This bombing raid was to be a preview of what was to happen between 39-45 to larger cities like Warsaw, London,Berlin, Dresden and finally Tokyo.
FOX News Becoming Moderate?…
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SOURCE :
http://www.usatoday.com/life/columnist/mediamix/2003-09-08-media-mix_x.htmAccording to the numbers FOX News was more negative(read as “liberal”) than CBS News during the Iraq War. So FOX is becoming moderate and CBS is leaning conservative? Armeggedon here we come!
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negative = liberal …
too easy.(hoping that i am logged in this time)
Falk -
I’m not making the connection here. Just because they didn’t comment positively on the war 100% of the time makes them more liberal? Now, their hosting of the Democratic candidates’ debate, on the other hand…
In a perfect world, we would get our news without any opinions on it, but failing that, I want to have both sides presenting the same news and see how it comes out.
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in a perfect world, the media would not exist, and we would simply recieve the information without that go-between.
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It would work if we used robots to give us the news…
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it wouldnt work, thats the point. a perfect world does not exist, and is not possible.
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How about 1/2 hour of liberal news and 1/2 hour of conservative news. We could pick the one we wanted or watch both and have a better grasp of the whole picture as well as both slants. :)
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FOX moderates in more ways than one…
Ok, now FOX is handling the “Democrat Hopeful Chats.” I heard some of it on the radio yesterday(?) & today. It certainly wasn’t a debate.
Nothing positive.
Bash Bush.
SOS. (Same Ol’ Shitt.)No wonder the news media is the only folks excited over this crop of “dandydates!”
Didn’t catch the ratings though.
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The best coverage of the War was on MSNBC.
Fox isn’t liberal or negative, but I repeat myself… :)
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…best coverage of the War was on MSNBC.
Considering the ratings they’ve been getting lately, they’d better pray for another war.
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Jefe - you are right about that. For the most most part MSNBC is DREADFUL,
but their war coverage was pretty good. David Bloom’s reports were otstanding it was a shame he died. In general
Fox news is the absolute bes news on Cable.
Fox news.com is excellent too , but I like News max a little better!