Mainstream Media Slow To Acknowledge Progress In Iraq
Mainstream Media Slow To Acknowledge Progress In Iraq
The New York Times reports this morning that news media organizations were focusing too much on casualties and mistakes by the military in Iraq, and were failing to provide a full picture of the progress toward stabilizing the country according to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. In remarks yesterday at John Hopkins University Secretary Rumsfeld said We've arrived at a strange time in this country where the worst about America and our military seems to so quickly be taken as truth by the press, and reported and spread around the world, often with little context and little scrutiny, let alone correction or accountability after the fact."