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"America is Very Good"
By John
Big thanks to Steve Schippert for digging this up.
Says Schippert:
From CBS (one of the major networks with zero embedded journalists in Diyala Province in July) comes a report on a tour through the Haifa Street markets now safe for business in Baghdad. And the journalist's lack of understanding of the step by step process clear and hold campaigns when he calls the new Haifa Street security misleading. And he ends by characterizing General Petraeus' walk greeting Iraqis as "warming up his campaigning skills here" in preparations for his September report to Congress.
Steve showered the report with a bit more skepticism that I would've liked. Given the anti-war nature of the MSM, beggars can't be choosers with these quasi-positive stories. I've complained in the past about the media failing to highlight the soft victories like the Haifa street, so good on CBS for doing the right thing (although the "campaigning" line irked me, too).
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Just more editorializing the news.
Thing is, the editors who approved this story should have scrubbed out the reporter's editorializing.
Bottom line. Real journalism is dead. So we gotta be happy with the little bit of news we do get crammed within the editorial nonsense.