C'mon, a beautiful young lady sacrifices her life in a war, ends up getting captured by the enemy, only to be liberated in a hail of gun fire...Hollywood could never come up with anything better than that. Too much press? Not enough for this true American hero, I say....Now back to Britney Spears eating yet another Twinkie...(pulls trigger) (Though, the Larry Flint nudies of Jessica was lower than slime s*it.)

Absolutely, a man doing the same thing would not have been news at all. Hew probably would have been thought of as a boob who made a mistake.

She certainly felt that way.

Does a wild bear sh*t in the woods?

Yes.Other people were captured,injured and killed-but her story was good press,used to make people feel good about a War that should never have even happened.

The media's job is to make a big issue out of everything. Heck, the media just reported that Derek Jeter had a cheese-steak sandwich and a konoly for lunch.

It's not so much that I think they made too much out of it, as much as I question the truth of everything we've heard. After everything this poor kid has been through, she deserves her privacy and her dignity.

they always do. but hey that chick survived not only a bombardment, but being anally rapped by those evil little muslims. so maybe she deserves some spotlight.

The media is a whorehouse that makes a big story out of nothing just so they can profit from it. Be afraid.

Yes. Attributing heroic actions to someone who didn't do them is, in my book, a form of slander. Jessica Lynch did nothing wrong, but the media (and the Army for that matter) did.

Yes. Had I been captured, beaten, and all the other crap it would only make news in my home state.

way too much hype,media frenzy.jessica was the first to tell the truth and underplaying all the hype.

What? The America media over-hyping a blond white girl who was captured because she made a mistake thus became a poster child for a war that no one really understands why we are fighting? I can't believe that. . .

Yes, but it is not surprising. The media saw this as a success story and took the opportunity to exploit it to their advantage. Lynch handled it better than the media did. The Army also managed to hype its success in rescuing her as well (although I'm still not sure I understand exactly what happened, i.e., whether or not the rescue team took any enemy fire, or if the whole operation was unopposed).

They are so starved for stories they will milk anything that they think will draw viewers.

Yes, absolutely. I wouldn't wish her suffering on anyone, but it didn't belong in the national spotlight as long as it did. The media in the U.S. has a kind of obsessive-compulsive disorder, with money at the root: it needs to latch on to stories that will keep people tuned in night after night, and keep the advertisers paying the bills. A story that ran well last night has a good chance of running as well this night: a new story is always a risk, unless it has a clear relation to a previous hit story. This story-conservatism is the main reason that the Lacies, the Michael Jacksons, the Jessicas and the Chandras stay in the headlines as long as they do.

yes they have. they had to keep on going on about her story as if she was the only soldier over there. Even she did not want that kind of press and did not want that applause.she gave a nice interview to Diane SAwyer a couple months saying so. she was very complimentary toward the other soldiers.

Well I guess. I mean doesn't the media make too big a deal out of just about everything?

Simply put, yes. I'm embarrassed to admit my connection to media outlets when I hear about Jessica Lynch's bravery on the news. Sure, she was taken prisoner under horrible circumstances, but the publicity surrounding her rescue was ridiculous. It was basically aimed at Americans to get morale up during a rough part of the war. I asked someone at my studio why there wasn't a movie coming out about the other POWs who were rescued, which in my opinion would have been much more interesting, and a reporter replied that Jessica's rescue had better timing. That makes me sick. We should honor all of our POWs and MIAs with respect and decency -- not movie and book deals.

Of course they did and now there's a made for tv out there.

Even Ms. Lynch says so, according to an interview on ABC's Primetime with Diane Sawyer (to air on Tuesday), stating Yeah, I don't think it happened quite like that. It's good to see that she's humble and honest enough to admit that she didn't shoot a single round and that her injuries were the result of her humvee crashing--I highly respect that. It's not just the extensive media attention she receives that bothers me, but the downplay of other soldiers' plights which angers me--recently, one of her rescuers was gunned down near his home, but the headline referred to him only as one of Jessica Lynch's rescuers and the picture showed Jessica Lynch framed with the American Flag, not his. (http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/11/07/lynch.interview/i ndex.html)

I want to preface my remarks by saying that I have no issue with Ms. Lynch at all. The media, and the gravy suckers that always belly up around this kind of story are, on the other hand, their usual verminous selves. I commend Ms. Lynch for refusing to have anything to do with the repellent jingoistic made for tv crapola that infected the airwaves recently.

The media made a big deal out of this poor girl's story. Suffice to say most people in the media are a bunch of whores. They only used Jessica Lynch to promote their agenda and garner higher ratings. She was a POW who was hurt, but at the time of her rescue she was being cared for by a doctor who repaired a broken bone she had. The media dramatized the rescue by constantly playing the night-cam footage of the rescue; it looked dramatic, but no one was armed in the hospital where she was at. What she went through was horrible, but even Jessica herself said the media made much ado about nothing. Yellow journalism is alive and well today in America, no doubt about it.

Yes. The sad part was the media did it for profit.