Mainstream Media Finally Waking-Up

Either they are finally waking up and reporting real news, or they have been shamed into it. Either way it was great to see the Washington Post reporting on yet another British Cabinet Memo: A briefing paper prepared for British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his top advisers eight months before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq concluded that the U.S. military was not preparing adequately for what the British memo predicted would be a "protracted and costly" postwar occupation of that country. The eight-page memo, written in advance of a July 23, 2002, Downing Street meeting on Iraq, provides new insights into how senior British officials saw a Bush administration decision to go to war as inevitable, and realized more clearly than their American counterparts the potential for the post-invasion instability that continues to plague Iraq. In its introduction, the memo "Iraq: Conditions for Military Action" notes that U.S. "military planning for action against Iraq is proceeding apace," but adds that "little thought" has been given to, among other things, "the aftermath and how to shape it." Hopefully, the Post wont be standing alone in this, and the rest of the media will start to follow suit and give the public real news that is truthful, and not just the Administrations' talking points. Another thing I hope changes soon, is this constant feeling that if you report a point of view (or take one yourself) you are compelled to balance it off with the other. That is nonsense, and leads to accomplishing nothing. What would have happened back in the Watergate era if all we had ever gotten was so-and-so says this, but this other so-and-so says that? Nixon and his thugs (so very similar to Bush and his thugs), would have succeeded in harming democracy just the way the Bush Crime Family is trying to do today.