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August 27, 2003
Iraq: today's coverage & questions to the readers
You know, I am beginning to lose respect for The New York Times. I grew up with it and have always loved it, but really their coverage of Iraq to date is mediocre.
Look at the leads today, NYT goes with Bush's content free (other than the usual painful blather for the red meat crowd and the unthinking parrot-patriots - useful largely in confirming that his Admin. still does not grasp what complete shit their policies are. Typical of the true believer. Funny, one of their intellectual supporters, Cohen, loves to quote Tallyrand.) while The Washington Post goes with Bremer who finally opens up what those of us over here have known for a while, Iraq is going to cost a lot of fucking money.
Aside, I have succeeded with Bambi's blocking operation with my laptop but the NT box seems ralcatricant. I broke down again and read. I find it bizarre that after my long discourses on the cost structure of reconstruction I still see comments where people think that Iraqi oil is going to pay for reconstruction. Amazing. All that effort wasted. I wonder if this effort is wasted.
In any case, for my money the important news is not Bush parroting whatever patriotic Spam his handlers have given him, but rather the reconstruction cost.
Another aside. I feel I should branch out in my news sourcing. If any readers have recommendations for non-East Coast papers online please share. Typically my main online news diet is NYT, WP, FT, BBC, MENAREPORT, al-Hayat, al-Jazeerah. I used to rather like following Le Monde but find their online format virtually unusable and frankly Le Monde has begun to annoy me. Not very strong reporting on Iraq, I must say in my opinion. Open to alternative suggestions.
By the way, does anyone follow the English version of al-Hayat that I recommended long ago?
And I wonder how many ever took my "Batle of Algiers" recomendation. I still feel a guitly sense of superiority over those P-gon fools that they are just discovering the Algerian model.
Posted by The Lounsbury at August 27, 2003 10:00 AM
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