[cyncooper]

This looks like another case of

Bad Reporting in Baghdad

To an amazing degree, the Baghdad-based press corps avoids writing about or filming the friendly dealings between U.S. forces here and the local population--most likely because to do so would require them to report the extravagant expressions of gratitude that accompany every such encounter. Instead you read story after story about the supposed fury of Baghdadis at the Americans for allowing the breakdown of law and order in their city.

[Chirodoc]

I feel like Iraq was liberated by one country and now observed by another...the US media, which is doing more damage to postwar reconstruction than 18,000 pieces of ordinance did during the war.

[vbmoneyspender]

Thanks for that link. That story just confirms what I already knew. Other than when they report sports scores and stock quotes, I simply do not trust anything that is written in the NY Times, the Wash. Post, the LA Times, AP, Reuters, etc. Whether they intend to or not, they simply report things that are not true most of the time. I was listening to Peter Beinhart (sp?) of The New Republic on Hugh Hewitt's show yesterday and he was mocking the journalistic bona fides of the Washington Times and I had to laugh. Even if the reporters at the Washington Times wanted to, how could they be any worse at reporting the truth than the mainstream media is.