Lazy, Stupid or Willfully Ignorant?

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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Dale Penn
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by Dale Penn - Oct. 1, 2008

The indictments of the MSM in this piece for failure to provide adequate coverage of events since the surge began may have some merit - I don't know. Yet I find it hard to accept reporting, such as this blog post, that is clearly aimed at discrediting all major MSM journalistic outlets without addressing any of the issues the MSM has covered. Are our military officers shills of the democrats for suggesting that the military is nearing a breaking point? The style of this piece is snarky and clearly biased toward the right and it ignores incredible financial cost to our country to continue funding a war with no clear definition of victory and no exit plan. Sorry, there is no number of embedded reporters sufficient to turn this story into the one this blog would like to see the MSM report.

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