Propaganda

I just have to link to this. Go take a look. If this is the level of "journalism" that the world expects, then it's no wonder that a huge chunk of people are so ignorant it's painful to be around them. As Jules Crittenden said yesterday:

So now we see that a former grunt and a German are capable of doing a better job in Iraq than our own professional press, managing to talk to real people and unafraid to talk about the good as well as the bad, the progress that is being made, the utter necessity of blood, sweat and tears that is being expended. Again, why are the great American media organizations unable to manage this? They’ll be handing out Pulitzers for 2007, the year when the leading forces of American journalism failed an entire people, sought to condemn an entire region of the world, and were willing to see slaughter and chaos. I can’t wait to see what the august judges settle on as the exemplars of this year’s greatness. They don’t have a Pulitzer for shame. They don’t have one for sloth and cynicism. But then, they don’t really have Pulitzers for passion, moral purpose and people who buck genteel drawing room sensibilities, either.

Oh, and if you haven't heard about the story from Der Spiegel yet, go click on the Crittenden link. It's worth every second of your time.