Thursday, February 3
The Australian press gets it
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/
story_page/0,5744,12128496^601,00.html
It is in this systematic mischaracterisation of the image
of the US in Iraq today that the US networks have had
their deepest influence: for this particular blindness
has been transmitted deep into American policy-making.
In a darker way than they realise, the US correspondents
who parachuted into Iraq and declared electoral victory
this week are at the very centre of the world events they
aim to capture for their home audience.