I'm heading over to B5 with my second cup of coffee to read Col. Ryan's essay. Thanks for the link.

Why hasn't it occured to any of the MSM that by covering the good news on the WOT they'd stand out from the rest like a sore thumb and likely get viewers in droves? CBS claimed the pressure of competition drove them to air the memo story early thus making it clear that ratings (read advertising dollars) are all in the business. Well, if you sell an angle no one else is covering, you'd be miles ahead of the competition and attract plenty of viewers thus driving up ratings. Something is wrong with this theory because none of the MSM is doing it but if I could figure out the fly in the ointment I wouldn't have bored you all with my wooly thinking. Is it really as simple as the MSM is marching in lock step with the anti-America crowd?

The state of our media (current and in days past) has been this constant push for the advancement of some Utopian society that they think will be advanced by the dissemination of the worst of our society's stories. What do you expect from lilly livered academics who are afraid of the world outside their cushy college campuses?

I wrote a post called "Sorry Mr. Terrorist" on my site expressing my displeasure and confusion on Bush's recent retraction of his "bring 'em on" and "dead or alive" comments. Is GW now compromised? God I hope not.

Thanks for the excellent post.

The only word to describe this would be "duh"

I linked this story on pandagon.net, a kook blog I troll on. Some Canadian kook questioned the word of an "isolated soldier." You can't win with the kooks...