Why does the mainstream media do this? Even the best news is cast in a way that the casual reader will mistake it for dreadful news. At some point, surely some news reporter should rebel and say, "we're here to report history, not rewrite it." Don't they at least feel a little uneasy, deliberately misleading the American people?

I often wonder about this. The journalist community is largely left-liberal, but it's certainly not 100%. And even among the left-liberals, there must be some, a handful, who really do feel some small obligation to the truth.

So where are they? I went looking for the "Moslem Methodists" some months ago; should we send out a searching party for the Justice Journalists, the ones who say "darn the party line, I'm going to tell it like it is!"

Those in the "new media" so called, Talk Radio, the Blogosphere etc., like to refer to the news media as the antique media, the mainstream  media culture (or MSM) and imply that it is waning in influence and maintain the optimistic assertion that people will see through the bias and dismiss it as party line blather and on some levels perhaps they do, but the constant, ceaseless hammering of bad news regarding the War on Terror (particularly Iraq) is perhaps a way of reasserting their dominance. I've observed that while there is a vigorous anti-war movement in this country today, it doesn't seem to be as influential as it was perhaps in the '60s. Maybe this is because many who were in the anti-war movement in the '60s are now the very journalists Mr. ab Hugh is excoriating in his post or at the very least, the children of these activists.

The United Nations (the organization that facilitated Oil for Food with Saddam and turned the entire country of the Democratic Republic of Congo into a systematic rape room) are clamoring for GITMO to be shut down because of the inhumanity of it all:

 A United Nations panel on torture called on the United States today to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and expressed concern over reports of secret detention centers and of a practice of sending terror suspects to countries with poor human rights records

No more rice pilaf for you Mr. Taliban. As far as poor human rights records,  the UN need look no further than themselves.