On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 18:45:16 GMT, in a place far, far away,
(Henry Spencer) made the phosphor on my monitor
glow in such a way as to indicate that:

In article ,
Scott Hedrick wrote:
I recently had the opportunity to meet someone just back from Iraq. He makes
it clear that the media is lying to the American public- the Iraqis are
*grateful* for our presence...

Others just back from Iraq tell very different stories.

There are lots of stories. We only seem to get the bad news, though.

It's unwise to
rely too heavily on a single report, even (perhaps especially) if it is
telling you what you want to hear. Iraq is a sizable country and any
particular soldier is seeing only a very small piece of it.

In the same vein, it is no secret that the US media generally do a lousy
job and have serious tunnel vision. At least a partial answer to that is
not to rely exclusively on *US* media. For example, read The Economist
rather than Time Magazine (not only is it British rather than American,
it's also a whole lot better).

Yes, but some of the best reporting is from people like Michael Yon.

http://michaelyon.blogspot.com/