[mtntop3]

The Globe's problem, one shared by most of the American press, is the tendency to see events in Iraq as isolated.

Either deliberately or through incompetency - both are daily evident.

Every aspiring media person should, as a requisite to employment (in that racket), give national service in the military, Peace Corps, or alternative service as in a VA hospital.

This is only right, fair and proper.

They daily carry out a parasitic existence - which would be justified if they would just demonstrate THAT THEY, TOO, are willing to give up something for a brief period in the national interest.

[Gritty]

Every aspiring media person should, as a requisite to employment (in that racket), give national service in the military, Peace Corps, or alternative service as in a VA hospital.

What they also need to do is take a few decent courses in American History, closely read the Constitution and other historical documents and spend some time visiting American battlefields and military cemeteries.