I'm taking it that by 'newspapers' he really had the MSM at large in mind.
i agree that he meant the MSM and they know it. they think he meant the Washington TImes and the WSJ opinion page.
They say Vietnam was the 'first televised war', and that is true to a point -- a day or two later we got to see highly edited reports on the alphabet networks of some of the action. In the Gulf War, the technology moved a step further to where the American people could see some of the events in nearly real-time while the MSM types supplied their spin.
But this war is different. Not only do people sitting in in front of their TVs and computers get to see things in real-time, but the soldiers in the theater of operations also get to see the same thing at the same time, and it is very obvious that they do not care for the spin that the MSM voices over the images and those GIs are using the available technology to go around the MSM and give Americans the true perspective of the war.
The MSM just can't get away with the crap that Walter Cronkite got away with 40 years ago.