Coverage of the war in Iraq & Afghanistan.

I posted a few months ago about the dearth of news coming out about the war since our troops were unequivocally winning and doing it despite many ludicrous restraints placed on them (e.g. if they're shot at from a mosque they can't shoot back).

Now this story confirms what I and others had noticed. I think the excuses given amount to a huge pile of bullshit. IMHO the studio heads don't want greater coverage because they realized there is no way they can continue pulling the wool over the eyes of John Q. Public as they denigrate the war and our military's role in it. Too often any lies they tell regarding the war and the conduct of the troops get exposed by independent bloggers (e.g., when the LA Times altered a photo of an American soldier so that it appeared he was aiming a gun at some Iraqi civilians. He was actually holding out his hands to offer assistance. I know I'm not the only one who remembers that farce). Unlike the Viet Nam War, there are now other more reliable sources of news than the MSM.

So now they'll keep silent until another Abu Gharib style screwup surfaces, then we'll once again be assualted by their breathless assertions of our military's incompetence/inhumanity.

I took journalism in high school and was fair at it. The main reason I never considered a career in it was that I didn't want to prostitute my integrity. No lie, fact. Seems I made the right decision.