In This War, We Report What They Decide — ‘In the unwritten code of media bigfoots, name-brand journalists don’t criticize each other. But there was Breslin, in his column, taking Tom Brokaw to task for a tacky and exploitative interview with the mother of a dead serviceman. For good measure, he threw in the texts of some signs he had seen at a New York peace march: ““U.S. Media – The Coalition of the Fawning”; “TV Networks-Stop Using the War to Up Your Ratings”; and “Networks Don’t Cover Peace.”

No human with an ounce of emotion can watch young kids under fire and not respect them, fear for them, feel for them. That’s the reason we need skeptical journalists on the home front to counterbalance the ‘embeds’ who will, quite naturally, start feeling parental, protective, and proud of the troops they cover. The Administration understands this all too well.’ TomPaine