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A media critic wages his own media war against the coverage of the war.

One headline called it ‘The worst invasion of Baghdad since the Mongols.’

Arab + U.S. television = more accurate war coverage.

It’s always been a tug-of-war between secretive government officials and those whose job it is—the press—to hold them and their actions accountable. In peaceful times, no elected leaders, no appointed…

‘Where were these stories when, over the last year, Bush was building up his “case” for war?’

‘It’s like you are talking about two different worlds.’

‘If a fact is ugly, should it be kept at a distance from readers and viewers?’

Embedding of journalists was an experiment. How did it work?

With regained public trust, watchdog reporting might be more welcomed for its role in protecting democracy.

Is objectivity an acceptable casualty of this kind of reporting?