Medhia Nox wrote...
@Dean_The_Young: Interesting story - but tales like this aren't always true. Folklore isn't relegated to fairies and witches. Though - I do commend it as riveting rhetoric.
While I'll always admit that that particular story is purely third/fourth hand, that sort of thing is all too common in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Insurgents trying to solicit retaliations that would produce civilian casualties (inciting a riot to provoke a crackdown) are all too real.
It's a bit part of the trouble of military-media relationships from the military's point of view. Media groups and reporters have their own agendas, and their own stories they want to write, even when they ignore context or causes.
Take a few years ago, when there was a Chinese clampdown on Tibetan dissidents. At the time, a video began circulating on the web, and some news groups, of Chinese soldiers opening fire on crowds. An apparent massacre. Massacre it was, but what the news groups didn't show was the unedited footage that later appeared, that was cut from the initial release: that the Chinese soldiers took fire first, and that even as they were firing there were gunmen near the crowd shooting back at them. 'Unprovoked massacre of weaponless civilians' has a much different context than 'Chinese soldiers return fire at gunmen in a protest.'
It's that sort of manipulation that comes to mind when the 'Cerberus lost the Derilect Reaper' charge is raised. It selectively grips on two truths (that Cerberus did hide the Derilect Reaper for... some amount of time, that the Derilect Reaper was lost), but completely ignores the catalyst that gives context (the the Reaper was lost because Shepard, and Shepard alone, destroyed the core).
And, of course, the deceit is done with a particular bias: to imply that Cerberus is entirely responsible, out of malice and/or incompetence, for the loss of the Reaper beyond recovery.
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