A Story Placement Fiasco
Slate’s “Today’s Paper” takes exception to the play given by the Washington Post to Thomas E. Ricks’ new book, “Fiasco.”
The WP fronts the first of a two-part adaptation of military correspondent Thomas E. Ricks’ new book titled Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq. In the article, Ricks writes about the way the U.S. military was not prepared to face the Iraqi insurgency. It is a good overview, with some interesting bits of information, but most of it could hardly be considered new since it mentions such things as the de-Baathification process and how the majority of Iraqis arrested by U.S. troops were of no intelligence value. With so much other news, is it really worth Page One, above-the-fold play?
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Nadine Cheung
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