It's a fine mess they've created, and not one that's going to be easily repaired. They've provoked ME relations and human deaths have occurred from the resulting outrage.
Unfortunately most of our "major media" sources have sunk to the point where they are no more reliable or ethical than the National Enquirer, but without the Enquirer's capacity to entertain.
I don't think many people outside this country (and certainly not in the ME, where awareness of other cultures is actively discouraged) are fully aware of the depths to which our media have sunk.
Lately, the National Inquirer is more reliable and truthful. At least who is cheating on who is right.
Does anyone remember last summer the FBI/Homeland Security let it be known that an attack of some sort was planned for 5/11/04 but had either been thwarted or abandoned? I think the story was from June or July.
Yep, and if you read the cover, you pretty much know the whole inside of it and don't have to spend a penny buying it. Supporting liberal newspapers via subscription or daily sales gives them more ammunition for attacking the very things we hold dear (and glorifying Bill, Hillary and the Chappaquidick swimmer).