Michael Ware: Rebuttal to Bush Claim that Press Turns a Blind Eye

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Monday, Dec 12
Penta-Gone With The Spin
Howard Kurtz's

Perhaps the best rebuttal to the Bush Administration's claim that the press turns a blind eye to progress in Iraq comes from Time magazine's Baghdad correspondent, Michael Ware:

"The defining quality of the Iraq story is the horror. It is a war, and it is awful, and bloody, and vicious, and brutal on all sides. To devote your energies to making that day's story the opening of a health clinic is almost irresponsible."

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