TomDispatch: "Deborah Amos, threw up her hands and declared that, between escalating dangers and American military control over reporting, the state of Iraq was essentially an unreportable story for American journalists. 'When you read a news report, look at the second line. More and more you will find it reads: "according to the U.S. military' or "according to officials.'' She added, 'You can no longer just rely on your news du jour, whether it's NPR or the New York Times,' and went on to describe NPR's offices in Iraq in this way: 'She said most NPR reporters are holed up in a compound on a hilltop that resembles a base for a Colombian drug lord. The guarded compound has a vault that journalists can step into if they' come to get them.' "
So, where do we get the real story? Is it possible that we ever get the truth? Bush and Co. carefully screen all questions from reporters, they screen attendees where ever they speak, and the news from Iraq is sanitized by the military and "officials." All this while the American public basically sleeps through this crisis in reporting and information. What can you expect from a public that sucks in the pap of reality TV, and can discuss nothing more earth shattering that what happened on Desperate Housewives. Americans have their heads in the sand, while our nation goes to hell in a handbasket.
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