It's worse than you think.
Last night I went to see independent journalist Dahr Jamail speak and read from his book: Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied IraqFrom the excerpts he read, I felt that what most distinguishes Darh Jamail's reporting from mainstream news coverage of Iraq - besides the fact that he looks beyond U.S. military
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Oh, god. The anti-war activist in me twinges insanely every time I read stuff like that. Ugh.
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One thing he mentioned that was funny (in a laugh or you'll break things way) was when someone asked about the response he got from mainstream press. He mentioned there was a play put on in London that was based on his work, about Fallujah, and the New York Times sent a reviewer to it. The reviewer wrote that it was an anti-American play, claiming the U.S. military had used incendiary weapons (i.e., white phosphorus), when that wasn't true. But not only was it true, the military had been forced to admit they'd used them, and probably hit civilians with them.
The New York Times editorial page published an editorial decrying the use of incendiary weapons, but despite the military's 'fessing up, they never wrote a hard news story about it. IOW, the editorial page, which is written off as leftie opinion, wrote about it, but they never reported it as the fact it ( ... )
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