Heck - the AP and major newspaper editors admitted that they don't know what is going on in Iraq. One of the bigwigs at the AP actually said that it was easier to count the number of deaths than to figure out how many hours of electricity they had in Iraq.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1464300/posts
***....Mike Silverman, managing editor of the Associated Press, lamented the fact that “explosions and shootings and fatalities and injuries on some days seem to dominate the news.” Silverman cited the dangers in Iraq as one of the reasons reporters were not getting more of the good things. Kathleen Carroll, the AP’s Executive Editor, actually said that “it was much easier to add up the number of dead than to determine how many hospitals received power on a particular day or how many schools were built.” Silverman than threw out the typical media excuse – the positives listed in the email were actually in various AP stories but they were buried in the articles. ............***
Bump!