“drumbeat of bad news…” Recently I’ve been reading reports headlines from the NY Times et. al. from around November 2001. The spin and sotto voce disdain smells like dog fur rolled in dead fish. Multiply this by a thousand, thousand, thousand for six years, it’s no wonder people have, in Krauthammer’s words, “turned against the war.” But the “war” turned against is a complete fiction, bits of bodies, attitudes and events piled in a heap on the pages of newsprint and the flashing TV lights. The press is failing in its constitutional duty to report factually on events, ask difficult and embarassing questions of all in power and authority, than to drive events. And Senators in congress are chasing these shadows of smoke,ponies, mirrors and dogs.
