Friday, March 18, 2005

Groups Progress on Iraq Coalition Gov't

This story is kind of funny coming from the AP, when you consider their headline on the 15th, "Leaders Fail to form Iraq Coalition Gov't". And notice how, in spite of the positive headline, the fourth paragraph has nothing to do with the story. We get a story about a suicide car bombing and then one about some sunni cleric getting iced before we ever hear about the actual story! It's not like they do this by mistake, people. It's pretty obvious what they're doing. They know this type of stuff wears people down and breaks their resolve. It makes the ignorant among us think the war is going badly. They don't have any type of historical perspective. Imagine if we had this type of negative coverage during WWII. The average person would think the whole world was ending. During that war, you would read about people dying by the thousands in a matter of hours, not years. Now imagine if every news story about the war effort at that time followed this same template. Would we have had the will go on fighting? Who knows?

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