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Monday Jan 22, 2007
Arianna In Our In Box
Her column, with its post-modern headline, The Mainstream Media's Take on Iraq: Right, Left... And Dead Wrong, suggests that the media are too busy trying to frame the Iraq war in terms of partisan politics. Her premise is that journalists believe anti-war sentiment is just the stuff of Prius-driving, sea-turtle lovers, while everyone who spent the morning in church yesterday wants to kill A-rabs with their teeth. "Divorced from the reality of what's going on in Iraq. Wedded to a deluded perception of the war. Unwilling to acknowledge widespread and irrefutable evidence to the contrary. Sound like anyone you know? No, I'm not talking about President Bush -- though it's certainly true of him as well. I'm talking about the mainstream media, and their relentless depiction of the Iraq war as a left/right issue, even as the facts give lie to this hoary framing." Huffington goes after big game: Howard Fineman, Candy Crowley and Judy Woodruff. Seriously? You're surprised that the media are unraveling the very fabric of democracy out of sheer laziness and an unyielding adherence to manufactured story lines? Isn't that why you started a blog? Either you're playing coy or you're the one divorced from reality. Email This Post |
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