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The fact that these documents were released has not been very well publicized. Do a search in Yahoo news for "documents". It appears there was a press release put out by someone. Note each of the articles hitting the same point, word for word: Documents released, dissension in Al Queda, etc. Nothing about anything else.

It is easy for the media to report from a press release. Some authority should be putting them out. I don't think the MSM is going to go through these and glean anything that would support the war or this administration.

Thats interesting... I was watching Hardball yesterday, Chrissy was saying that people are down on Iraq, down on the Economy, etc. The guest responded with how good the economy is, and of course chrissy comes back with "but the polls don't show that"

Anyway, it ended up with the guest explaining that Chrissy and the MSM aren't interested in reporting the good news on the economy, much like they aren't about Iraq.

Chrissy got all pissy and was yelling "at the half of the hour right there, we have stock and market updates so I don't see how you can say we don't report the good news that things are up and all"

TOTALLY missing the point (not uncommon for Chrissy). Like you said, sticking an up arrow on a scrolling graphic, or saying what the dow is at is one thing. Its TOTALLY different than a 'news cycle' where the 'motivation' is "lets do a story on what are the hot sectors for the new jobs" or a few puff tangent pieces or whatever.

Sadly, its that incidental media 'saturation' that influences half of Americans who aren't actively out LOOKING for the information in the first place.

Anyway, you made the same point here, and I totally agree.