Iraq: it’s all the media’s fault
[via Romenesko]
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/18/rs.01.html
“The media has decided this war is going badly,” says Fund “Reliable Sources”
Wall Street Journal/OpinionJournal.com columnist John Fund and Howard
Kurtz on CNN:
FUND: We have found computer files in Zarqawi’s computer which shows
he was very pessimistic about the insurgency and said time was on the
Americans’ side. That got very little coverage even though my
intelligence sources say it’s been completely authenticated.
KURTZ: And so you believe this is because of a negative media mindset
on the war?
FUND: I think that the media has decided this war is going badly and
short of the surrender of the insurgency, that’s the storyline. So I
think the body count continues to be covered and Zarqawi’s computer
drive revelations aren’t.