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The article takes big corporate media to task for lazy and reckless reporting of the Strait of Hormuz incident. The cases of media fecklessness are well documented. The article did not pick up controversies regarding the laws of territorial waters and naval law along with questions of whether the US operations were indeed technically illegal, depending upon exactly where they were located.

By now this story is old - at least to those of us who have bothered to track it - but the vast majority of the public did not, so the fradulent Pentagon version is still out there despite rebuttals in two major newspapers. In fact, our White House already passed on a complaint to the Iranian government about the incident - - also timed to coincide with Bush's visit to the Near East. Most of the public gets its news on TV. If CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, FOX, MSNBC, and the rest were to retract the story, reveal the Pentagon/Defense Department lies, and correct the false impression they first amplified, we might finally hope that they are beginning to retreat from their White House biases. But that's not what we have come to expect.