Radical Muslims are becoming experts at PR.
The Palistinians have been playing the Western Media for years.
Now, the Radical Muslims in Iraq are also playing the Media.
The Media is so hungry for anti-American, anti-US Military, anti-West materials that they will buy anything. They are being taken in.
"They are being taken in."
I'd change that to, "They are willing accomplices." ;)
Well, they have fellow travellers at al-Reuters and willing dupes at CBS/NBC/ABC/CNN/etc....
Bastards ... all!
You are right. They know how to make the news, literally. We are losing the PR war.
Re: your reply........no more phone calls; we have a winner.
You just nailed it; succinctly, deadly accurate. Kudos.
And if no one is selling, they will just make it up themselves, (see Mary Mapes and Dan Rather.)
I began looking at the mainstream media with skepticism nearly 40 years ago when Walter Cronkite painted Tet as a defeat for US troops, and I knew that it was not true. Today, I'm far past simply being skeptical of what they report. I assume up front that anything they report is a damn lie until I can ascertain from other sources if their is any truth at all in their story.
What's worse, they know it. But cooperate willingly.