Gloom and Doom

Good column about the hideously slanted negative portrait the press keeps painting about the situation in Iraq. Boy, you'd think they'd understand that this only helps the Democrats and that they'd try to be more balanced. Right?

excerpt:

It's practically the same grievance I'm hearing now, on my fifth trip to Iraq since the war began. The soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines I talk to here are downright angry about how their war is being "reported" -- and the way those "reports" are used as political fodder back home, in Europe, even in Iraq. As a young Army captain vehemently put it: "Ernie Pyle would laugh at what passes for reporting in this war. The networks set up their cameras on a hotel balcony and send out an Iraqi producer to buy videotape from Al Jazeera. Then the reporters all sit inside the "green zone" and concoct their bad news stories. The next thing you know, it's being used in a political ad back home. For me, this isn't political -- it's personal. We're a whole (expletive) lot better than what people back home are seeing."