Lazy, Stupid or Willfully Ignorant?

Forward Movement by Jules Crittenden | Jul. 12, 2007 (News Report)

Right now, all the talk in DC is whether there has been any progress in Iraq. No one can wait till September. They need to know now. Primarily, it appears, because they need to kill the war for their own domestic political reasons before it kills them. Most people, of course, already have the answer they want.

But how come, if this is the pressing issue of the day, we've seen no serious effort whatsoever among our leading news organizations to ... Full Story »

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 by Julian Friedland - Oct. 1, 2008

This is frankly an insult to our intelligence. The argument is that the media is doing the bidding of democratic politicians. That's plainly absurd. Who controls the mainstream media? A rhetorical question. But it's not Pelosi et al. What this rightist blog wants is positive reporting. Not unbiased reporting. This author, together with Yon and others don't understand the flaws in embedded reporting, which only gives (as Yon does) biased and delusional impressions of the war. They're so uninformed they think the Al Qaeda in Iraq is Bin Laden's organization and not a Suni front fighting for dominance over the Shi'a. Pure brainwashing.

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