{"id":1540,"date":"2006-08-24T22:43:06","date_gmt":"2006-08-25T03:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1540"},"modified":"2006-08-24T22:44:01","modified_gmt":"2006-08-25T03:44:01","slug":"recruiting-back-door-drafts-and-our-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1540","title":{"rendered":"Recruiting, Back-door Drafts and &#8220;Our&#8221; Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a period in which all active-duty components of the U.S. military have reached their recruiting goals for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emilitary.org\/article.php?aid=7473\">fourteen consecutive months<\/a>, two of my favorite MilBloggers, Matt at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackfive.net\/\">Blackfive<\/a> and John at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.op-for.com\/\">Op-For<\/a>, take issue with a some news stories that try to imply severe manpower issues.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackfive.net\/main\/2006\/08\/media_still_doe.html\"><strong>Media Still Doesn&#8217;t Understand Recruiting&#8230;or Do They?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/op-for.com\/2006\/08\/yellow_journalism_makes_a_come.html\"><strong>Yellow Journalism Makes a Comeback<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Go read them both.  I would like to chip in that I feel Matt&#8217;s second linked story about a gang member and murder suspect that tried to enlist to be beyond piss-poor journalism and, instead, leaves no doubt about negative intentions against the military by the journalist involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a period in which all active-duty components of the U.S. military have reached their recruiting goals for fourteen consecutive months, two of my favorite MilBloggers, Matt at Blackfive and John at Op-For, take issue with a some news stories that try to imply severe manpower issues. Media Still Doesn&#8217;t Understand Recruiting&#8230;or Do They? Yellow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-media","category-military","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}