InstaPundit Asks A Good Question
After reading a bit from the Strategy Page (quoted below in italics), InstaPundit, Glenn Reynolds asks a great question...
While soldiers were guarding the site, to cars full of men dressed as journalists (wearing jackets with "PRESS" printed on them) drove up and fired on the troops. One car was later found and the occupants arrested. But Reuters says some of it's Iraqi employees were arrested in error. Iraqi journalists have a long tradition of working for the highest bidder and doing what they are told. Worked for Saddam, and before him as well. The Baath party may well be paying Iraqi journalists working for Western media in order to perform additional services. This sort of thing is no longer a secret because the American informer network is now revealing all sorts of interesting stuff.
I wonder why Western journalists aren't loudly protesting these tactics on the part of the Baathists? If American troops, or CIA agents, were using "journalistic cover" they'd be screaming to high heaven.
Matt's Chat
Glenn, the answer is that the Western media wants the other side to win. But I suspect you already knew that...Mark's Remarks
I do not necessarily think American or Western media wants terror to win, but they do not want the war over or things to settle down anytime soon. Nothing sells like hate and bad news...just ask the liberals, they are full of it...Literally.
