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Great.
I appreciate that.

Could you also read this article too and let me know what you think about it, ok?
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http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35974

"Hell hath no fury like a Gray Lady scorned"
Posted: December 5, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "As news broke last week that President Bush was returning from a historical Thanksgiving Day visit to the troops in Baghdad, Philip Taubman, the Washington bureau chief of the New York Times, was furious."

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Enveloped in measures of intense security, the trip was not announced to the world until President Bush had already left Baghdad. It was a triumph of historical proportions – the White House had pulled off the impossible (sweetened by the way it happened to overshadow a trip to the region by Sen. Hillary Clinton, whose story was relegated to page 15).

After giving thanks to the troops for their heroic efforts in Iraq, President Bush would have been remiss if he did not turn to give his thanks to the journalists who accompanied him. This small group of professional reporters demonstrated journalism at its best, and for that they earned the gratitude of a president, his soldiers at war, and a nation.

Yet the Times' Taubman was angry at how the White House pulled off the trip. While a 6-year-old child would understand the White House's need to employ an innocent ruse to ensure the safety of the president, the reporters and the soldiers on the ground, Taubman told Washington Post columnist Howard Kurtz that once White House officials "decided to do a stealth trip, they bought into a whole series of things that are questionable." (In addition, Taubman just couldn't seem to understand why "in this day and age" the White House was unable "to take more reporters" on the journey).

To Taubman's defense came Tom Rosenstiel, director of the so-called Project for Excellence in Journalism. A misnomer by any standard, the "Project for Excellence in Journalism" is the very same outfit that produced the preposterous book, "The Elements of Journalism" co-written by Mr. Rosenstiel and Bill Kovich (a former Washington bureau chief of the New York Times). One of the key insights of this disaster in journalism is (I'm not making this up):

It is worth restating the point to make it clear. Being impartial or neutral is not a core principle of journalism."