On Iraq, Reporters May Be Missing Their Mark(et)

By Al Kamen
Washington Post

The liberal media have been jumping all over Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for accusing the press of not reporting all the good news in Iraq. There has been some improvement, McCain told reporters after strolling through the Shorja market in Baghdad. "But the American people are not getting the full picture of what's happening here.

"They are not getting the full picture of the drop in murders, the establishment of security outposts throughout the city, the situation in Anbar province, the deployment of additional Iraqi brigades who are performing well, and other signs of progress that have been made."

Instead, what does the press do? It harps on the hundreds killed around the country in the week before the visit, including at least 152 in Tall Afar, and the six U.S. soldiers killed the day McCain, wearing a flak jacket and surrounded by dozens of troops, was at the market.

We're now in the fifth year of the media's failure to report the good news from Iraq.

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