Excellent article.
It is a great article indeed.
I just have one problems with it:
The admired John F. Burns of The New York Times last year accused correspondents who reported alongside him from Saddam's Iraq of having "behaved as if they were in Belgium", rather than in a tyranny: "The essential truth (about Saddam's genocidal regime) was untold by the vast majority of correspondents here."
IMHO, Belgium is not the best example. This is the country that tries to ban legitimate political parties, and arrests journalists who investigates corruption in the EU.
Finally...........someone with the courage to call the pot black!