Michael Barone notes an MRC summary of the media shows...they are negative about Iraq...duh...
of course, the MRC seems to be a right wing group, but all I can note is that the people at CNNI keep asking eager questions about "civil war" and seem happy about "insurgent" attacks and casualties...and even their two minutes interviews with experts seem to have questions aimed at supporting this point of view. (Christienne Amanpour's "interview" with the pres of syria didn't help matters....ummm....did she really think he'd tell the truth? DUH.)
However, it is not merely about Iraq...we saw the same thing about Katrina...and about the Catholic church...
As for the Philippines, furgetaboutit...
We're off the charts...
You see, without context, you can't see the whole picture...so the media decides one leaf tells the story about a tree, and then they paint the forest...
Which is why the only newspaper I susbscribe to is the Christian Science Monitor...which alas will probably go broke, because it ignores stuff like Brittany Spear's bra sale on ebay...
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