Untouchable Chief

One of the reasons I started this blog was to counter the propaganda being fed to us by the leftwing press who seems to want to tear down this whole country to win in election. Burning down the house to get rid of the termites is effective in the short term but creates more problems than it solves.
The first article I read, after registering this weblog, is a demonstration of what I mean. The article explains why we're getting so much bad news from Iraq while the good news is mostly ignored.
The link to the article is here :

Untouchable Chief
As we say in the blogosphere, read the whole thing(RTWT). Its an eye opener.

The Untouchable Chief of Baghdad

By Eric M. Johnson
06/29/2004

Iraq veterans often say they are confused by American news coverage, because their experience differs so greatly from what journalists report. Soldiers and Marines point to the slow, steady progress in almost all areas of Iraqi life and wonder why they don’t get much notice – or in many cases, any notice at all.

Part of the explanation is Rajiv Chandrasekaran, the Baghdad bureau chief for the Washington Post. He spent most of his career on the metro and technology beats, and has only four years of foreign reporting, two of which are in Iraq. The 31-year-old now runs a news operation that can literally change the world, heading a bureau that is the source for much of the news out of Iraq.

Very few newspapers have full-time international reporters at all these days, relying on stringers of varying quality, as well as wire services such as Reuters and Agence France-Presse, also of varying quality. The Post's reporting is delivered intravenously into the bloodstream of Official Washington, and thus a front-page article out of Iraq can have major repercussions in policy-making.

This effect is magnified because of the Post's influence on what other news organizations report. While its national clout lags behind the New York Times, many reporters look to the Post for cues on how to approach a story. The Post interprets events, and the herd of independent minds bleat their approval and start tapping on their keyboards with their hooves.

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