Out of the mainstream

The third anniversary of the invasion of Iraq brought out the usual suspects to critique the war and the president. The "MSM"—mainstream media—also came under criticism for reporting only the violence in Iraq and never the progress being made there: They seem intent on predicting civil war rather than relaying the facts as to how the country is still holding together.

Public distrust of MSM coverage of Iraq has three sources.

First, as then CNN senior news executive Eason Jordan admitted in a New York Times column published in April 2003, his network was complicit in the cover-up of Saddam's barbarism. CNN was not alone in refusing to expose the cruel despot and his mad sons—and the MSM have still not thoroughly detailed the nightmare that U.S. intervention ended.