Annals of Clumsy Smokescreens

Glenn Reynolds is very upset that the media are continuing to focus on Abu Ghraib even after the Nicholas Berg execution. He wants to persuade us that Berg is the story we should care about enough to forget the prison scandal. It is only the left wing conspiracy against the Bu**sh** administration that makes for anything different. Oh, and part of the conspiracy was that the Boston Globe deliberately ran faked Abu Ghraib sexual abuse photos and refused to apologize. Most of the article consists of search engine reports that various “Nick Berg” phrases were its most popular search requests this week, not “Abu Ghraib” phrases. Uhhh, could that be because the Abu Ghraib photos were all over the web while the Berg videotape was hard to find? Desperately watching the sands of public opinion sift through your fingers, are you, Glenn?