MY LATEST MSNBC POST on Big Media reporting on Iraq is up. In particular, I recommend the appearance by Pamela Hess on C-SPAN that’s mentioned (and linked) there. Something that I found striking, but didn’t mention, was that after Hess (a UPI reporter who just got back from Iraq) said that things weren’t as bad in Iraq as the Big Media coverage makes them seem, she got a lot of truly nasty emails and phone calls from war critics who called her a “whore” and a “mouthpiece for the Administration.” (One also called Bush a “monkey in a man suit.”)

But now even Dan Rather is admitting that the TV news is making things look worse in Iraq than they really are. Perhaps that’s a sign that the tide is turning.