[driftless]

for all the problems he's CAUSED!! not called.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

The reporting on the arrest of the "motorist" as much as anything else alerted most to what kind of "news" media we had. I don't want to say "had become" because they have been that way for decades. They remain that way.

Nothing proves that more than the fact the media's Iraqi coverage looks to the past for Vietnam war-era rhetoric such as quagmire, calls for "exit strategy, "Tet offensive" set backs, and (next?) Iraqization. The "journalists" won the praise of North Vietnam General Vo Nguyen Giap who saluted the American press as his most important guerilla. Mullahs take note.

IMO the "motorist" story was the beginning of the end of repsect most had for the maintream media.