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Sunday, March 05, 2006

"Dude- Where Is My Civil War"?

That's the title of Ralph Peter's latest column about the media almost gleefully predicting and reporting civil war in Iraq. But, Peters claims from his vantage point on the ground in Iraq, that he sees no substantive evidence of a civil war. (and btw the civil war was one of the main topics on the weeny Chris Matthews Show on this Sunday morning).

In his column, Peters takes a whack at the reporting methodology of the MSM. Here is a a great quote..."And the Iraqi stringers (working for the MSM) have cracked the code: The Americans (the MSM) don't pay for good news. So they (the stringers) exaggerate the bad."

Read the whole article, I provide the link below.

http://www.nypost.com//postopinion/opedcolumnists/64677.htm

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