Will the press again serve as “surge protectors?”
Editor & Publisher
by Greg Mitchell
09/05/07
Over the next week, much will be written, pro and con, about General Petraeus’s report on the progress of the ’surge’ in Iraq and President Bush’s response. Since both men have pretty much already announced, or at least rehearsed, what they are going to say, the suspense is not exactly crippling. I’ll be writing more later, but for now I’d simply like to address the media’s responsibility to address, over the next few days, this key moment in our recent history with a steady gaze — which, as I will recount, was sadly lacking last winter in the weeks before the ’surge’ was announced...
http://tinyurl.com/2v68r4
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Petraeus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Greg+Mitchell
by Greg Mitchell
09/05/07
Over the next week, much will be written, pro and con, about General Petraeus’s report on the progress of the ’surge’ in Iraq and President Bush’s response. Since both men have pretty much already announced, or at least rehearsed, what they are going to say, the suspense is not exactly crippling. I’ll be writing more later, but for now I’d simply like to address the media’s responsibility to address, over the next few days, this key moment in our recent history with a steady gaze — which, as I will recount, was sadly lacking last winter in the weeks before the ’surge’ was announced...
http://tinyurl.com/2v68r4
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Petraeus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Greg+Mitchell
rudkla - 7. Sep, 14:38
