[Matchett-PI]

Iraq bishop says media distorts coverage to discredit US-led war - An Iraqi Catholic bishop has accused Western media of lying about the postwar state of his country:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/990648/posts?page=13#13

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/991233/posts?page=36#36

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/991233/posts?page=37#37

[Young Rhino]

The only quagmire is in the mind of a journalist.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Thanks for the post, Matchett-PI!

If you are like most Americans, the news you see on television and read in the press from Iraq seems grim--stories of firefights, car bombs, battles with terrorists.

The understated and honorable Rummy continues to patiently educate America.

Thanks, WSJ!

 Thanks, Tonkin!

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[cookcounty]

A wonderful corrective. The major news media see their function as reporting fear, rather than reporting facts. That's why we have so much contempt for them.

[Consort]

Last week, Bill O'Reilly defended the media's harping on the negative in Iraq.