Media

Embedded Lies

“ I just returned home from a trip to Fallujah, where I was the only reporter embedded with the United States military. There was, however, an unembedded reporter in the city at the same time. Normally it would be useful to compare what I saw and heard while traveling and working with the Marines with what a colleague saw and heard while working solo. Unfortunately, the other Fallujah reporter was Ali al-Fadhily from Inter Press Services. ” Michael Totten's "The Other Fallujah Reporter" is evocative of Akira Kurosawa's film "Rashomon," about various versions of the same rape. Totten's protagonist is Ali al-Fadhily, a reporter for IPS (Inter Press Services).  IPS is like AP without all the cash, in that their news coverage may fairly be described as "Blame America first, and Hooray for the UN."  If I'm correct,  and I am, the outrageous left-wing bias demonstrated by media is not the result of orchestration, per se, but because reporters are so inculcated with liberalism that they find what they look for, and like Ali al-Fadhily twist and weave that truth into something that validates their belief system.  It's as though we have two languages -- throw in Spanish and Ebonics, and it's four -- and that  means .... something bad.