FP Mag Reports on the Reports

Like many, if not most Republicans, Lionel Rivera has resorted to the B.S. argument that the liberal press does not report the true raving success we've had in Iraq.

Foreign Policy Magazine, that liberal rag, posted an interview with Rod Norland (Newsweek's Iraq bureau cheif, on what stories get out and how much truth there is.

Rod's bottom line? "The military has started censoring many [embedded reporting] arrangements. Before a journalist is allowed to go on an embed now, [the military] check[s] the work you have done previously. They want to know your slant on a story—they use the word slant—what you intend to write, and what you have written from embed trips before. If they don’t like what you have done before, they refuse to take you. There are cases where individual reporters have been blacklisted because the military wasn’t happy with the work they had done on embed. But we get out among the Iraqi public a whole lot more than almost any American official, certainly more than military officials do."

The Republican candidates here in CD-5 must not be paying attention, because the truth if plain as day. A scan through the media will tell you, even as the military hides more bad news than the media can't cover because they may get killed.