Pasqual – why are you standing up for MSM and trying to reform their rep? Even if you work for LA Times or NY Times, their fate(s) are even more written in concrete than the failure of the US Military in Iraq has ever been.

What difference does it make which specific individual works for which outlet, when overall, pretty much since 9/12/2001, the 5 or 6 big international newspapers and ABC / NBC / CBS / CNN *and* Reuters/AP have *all* been supporting the exact same meme(s).

Those memes can be summed up variously as “if it bleeds ,it leads” and/or “Iraq is just as much of a quagmire as Vietnam was, and America made a mistake going in and should leave immediately” and/or “Bush lied, people died”.

Just because John Burns has been doing consistently good work and Michael Yon *occasionally* gets printed by the dinosaurs does NOT excuse them for rushing to press with photoshopped pictures, supporting Palestinian lies about dead Dura’s, and hiring stringers who are terrorists themselves.

I think in calling Wretchard “stupid” in your attempt to turn his comments into something to salve MSM self-inflicted wounds, you’re outing yourself more than you realize. In doing so, you cast a dubious blight on everything else you have ever written so that the perception becomes not only “deranged moonbat” but “jealous ex-journalist”.

(And with a Frenchified name like Pasqual, you need all the help you can get from the get-go since we still are wondering if the French are allies with the rest of the west in our efforts to save our civilization.)