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  • Covering Iraq:The Modern Way of War Correspondence

    01/26/2007 1:50:01 PM PST · by mek1959 · 6 replies · 326+ views
    http://www.fumento.com/military/brigade.html ^ | November 7, 2006 | Michael Fumento
    Ramadi, Iraq Would you trust a Hurricane Katrina report datelined “direct from Detroit”? Or coverage of the World Trade Center attack from Chicago? Why then should we believe a Time Magazine investigation of the Haditha killings that was reported not from Haditha but from Baghdad? Or a Los Angeles Times article on a purported Fallujah-like attack on Ramadi reported by four journalists in Baghdad and one in Washington? Yet we do, essentially because we have no choice. A war in a country the size of California is essentially covered from a single city. Plug the name of Iraqi cities other...