Scouring Iraq For Good News

Conservatives complain that the media are only reporting the bad news from Iraq. Liberals disagree. One blogger went there in an effort to discern the truth.

Scouring Iraq for good news


Reporters find success stories, but admit that the failures deserve most of the media's attention.


Blogger Michael Yon spent 10 months embedded with the military in Iraq looking for success stories, becoming the poster boy for those who say the mainstream media are not reporting good news from the war-torn country.


But ask the Winter Haven native about criticism last week from President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and others that mainstream news reporters are missing the real story of achievement in Iraq, and he strikes a more conciliatory tone.


"The only journalists I think are doing a bad job are people who go in for a few weeks or a month - the short term embeds trying to write an expose of Iraq," said Yon, who left Iraq in September and hopes to return soon.


"When you really start to see the big picture, though there are places in Iraq that are not on fire, the places that are, are really on fire ," added the blogger, whose work appears at michaelyon-online.com. "No one wants to be the first to say what is obviously true ... that Iraq is already in a civil war." [...]

When you recall that the Pentagon has been chastized for disseminating propaganda, it becomes difficult to believe the Administration rhetoric. posted by : Joseph j7uy5 | link | | |
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