One has to wonder how these numbnuts like Laura Ingraham, Cal Thomas, etc can say with a straight face that the problem with the war in Iraq is that the media aren't reporting all the good things going on over there. What they need to do, in this theory, is leave the Green Zone, go out and talk to the troops and find out whow things are really going.
Leaving aside the painfully obvious question - if reporters are cowards, why have more been killed in Iraq than in World War II? - you must, eventually, bang yoru head on the table in frustration with the even more obvious question: why don't you do it?
How is it that I hear so much about what reporters should do from who themselves are apparently unwilling to do it? If there were good news to report, wouldn't FOX News be reporting it? Or are they part of the liberal media conspiracy now? Seriously, with all the people out there in the journimalistic media eager to tell the good news about Iraq, why can't any of them find any? Where is the Laura Ingraham who will report the good news instead of just accusing other reporters of ignoring it? How is it that no one eager to report the good news from Iraq happens to be reporting on Iraq?
That "good news" line is getting stale, folks, and people know it. Just as surely (and slowly) as they are figuring out that there is so much talk about the liberal media, you have to wonder who isn't talking about it. In fact, if you turned down all that yakking about the liberal media, the remaining media would be consipicuous for their silence. Then again, the fact- and reality-based media can't talk about the "liberal media" much, because they've got to report the actual news. So either the facts have a liberal bias, or once you take the plain old facts away, there just ain't much left to be the "liberal media", eh?
