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July 26, 2006
Milbloggers And The MSM
In today's Wall Street Journal, Mike Spector has a fair-minded report on military bloggers, and he highlights the driving force that spurs their popularity: the systemic and institutionalized bias of the mainstream media. After favorable mentions of Matthew Burden, who started Blackfive, and Michael Yon, Spector covers some of the milbloggers who have run afoul of the brass. Spector also gets some MSM opinion:
The frustration of milbloggers is understandable, says Alex S. Jones, a former New York Times reporter who heads the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University. But he adds, "If the overall picture is one of continued violence and a significant lack of stability in many parts of Iraq, the individual shards of good news could be more of a distortion than a reflection of the truth."
Emphasis mine. How perfectly is this guy proving the milbloggers assertion of MSM bias? "If the overall picture is one of continued violence[....then the] good news could be more of a distortion..."
Well sure it could, but that's a big "if", Mr. Jones. And dispensing with that "if" is what most of the milbloggers are working so hard to correct.
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