Until today, I have never really understood the criticisms from conservative and right wing blogs and pundits of Iraq coverage by the mainstream or corporate media. Needless to say, the rigt has been foaming at the mouth about the "liberal" media for years and years as part of a political and economic strategy to control mass media in the US. This foaming does not require much in the way of facts, which is why it has been so hard to understand exactly what they find objectionable in the coverage of many topics, including Iraq.
You are all, no doubt, familiar with the basic critique of Iraq coverage: the mainstream media only report on the carnage, which is limited, and not on the progress and the calm, which are considerable and widespread. The media does this because they are liberal and therefore want America to fail in Iraq, thus replicating their defeat of the US in Vietnam.
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