A Comment About

Soccer 1, Jimmy Carter 0

April 16, 2008 - 12:57 am - by Lisa Goldman
Lichthammer
2008-04-16 11:56:44

“And that is how reporting the news works in the Middle East. Everyone has an agenda, nobody bothers to pretend otherwise, and the concept of objective reporting is considered laughably naïve.”

The above is not specific to the Middle East, it’s how the news media work in general. You also forgot part of their credo: If there are no news to report – make up some.

It’s called “football”, by the way.