"Hear No Victory, See No Victory, Report No Victory"

Hugh Hewitt slams The Los Angeles Times today at The Weekly Standard:

.... The Los Angeles Times and other papers and media outlets have made conscious decisions to express opposition to the war in their editorial pages. That opposition is, less than two weeks in, seeping into the news coverage. It is a first for American media to turn against a war so quickly and abandon objectivity so thoroughly. Although Operation Iraqi Freedom is the farthest, fastest major advance of U.S. military forces in history, with the fewest casualties, and although the prospect is still in front of us of a decisive victory within three months, nevertheless the doomsayers on Spring Street are working overtime to create an alternative vision of the war. This vision evidently requires the front page to be kept clear of all reports of victory.

I am unsure what to brand this practice, but whatever it is, it sure isn't journalism. That would require objectivity concerning the advance of coalition forces, the casualties the coalition has suffered, and the damage down to civilians, all measured against history's ruler. Such reporting might end up sounding like a paper endorsing victory, if only implicitly....

See also LA Times Spouts Iraqi Propaganda as News.

(Thanks, Ryan.)

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Mon. 03/31/03 03:59:37 PM
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