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May 03, 2005
A New Media Obsession - Updated
It's good to see the media so concerned about the level of staffing in the military all of a sudden. From MSNBC, today: "Army misses recruiting goal for 3rd month."
Do you remember this level of examination of recruitment from the mainstream media during the Clinton administration? Neither do I, but there was a similar problem back then:
Faced with an unusual drop-off in new recruits, the Air Force plans for the first time to join the other armed services and pay for national television advertisements to try to persuade young men and women to sign up...The article is from 1999, and from a small internet publication. Guess it wasn't that important to the big guys. After all, Clinton was president.All of the services have faced difficulties with recruiting and retention. The Army's recruiting problem appears even more dire. From October to January, the Army fell 2,479 enlistees, or 13 percent, short of its recruiting goal of 19,020, despite a flurry of advertisements and bonuses.
UPDATE - In July of 1999, Accuracy in Media complained about the lack of attention given low military recruitment levels:
Just as we completed our recent Media Monitor on the national media ignoring the collapse of military recruitment, the Washington Times has published an article on how the Air Force is at a 20-year low in recruiting, and how members of Congress are talking about the return of the military draft. The article is from the San Antonio Express-News, a Texas newspaper, and describes how the Air Force may fall 2,500 soldiers short of its recruitment goal in the current fiscal year. The State newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina, had previously run an article on the same subject, disclosing shortages in the Army and the Air Force.So the media basically ignored a story they are now hyping and bought into the Clinton spin back then?The problem is that the San Antonio paper parroted the Clinton Administration line that the problem can be attributed to a strong economy which is attracting young people into the civilian sector. The paper quoted a Pentagon spokesman as saying, "We have a booming economy, which we are grateful to see, but it does mean that we have the lowest unemployment in about 30 years and fierce competition for talented young people." By contrast, the Columbia paper had also noted the increasing tendency to assign our troops to dead-end peacekeeping missions, such as Kosovo. This is taking a savage toll on military recruitment.
Say it isn't so.
Posted by slublog at May 3, 2005 09:45 AM
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