Went to an Annenberg War Discussion, where I became pegged as a left-wing looney. All the same, I suppose, after all, I was listening to an army officer talk about how he feels guilty he’s not there, like he’s missing out on the Super Bowl, and a bunch of big-J bigwigs talk about how they feel the US journalism hasn’t been that bad and they’d have to watch out so they can remain unbiased (they mentioned Arnett being out of line for actually, God forbid, speaking the truth). There was some talk about international journalism, but there seemed to be mystification more than clarification. A student mentioned that in Italy, they were just reporting about the bombing and about the dead civilians, but coming back to the US it was all about the soldiers cradling babies.
By that time, I didn’t even bother to say anything [I’d been marginalized by then], but perhaps that skewing of coverage has to do with Iraqi civilian casualties outnumbering Anglo-American Coalition troop casualties by, oh, about ten to one (651:69 at the moment). [see also WMD sites uncovered: 0]