Bush’s battle with the media
President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and others seem to be blaming the news coverage for the plummeting support for the war in Iraq.
They say that the progress being made isn’t being reported; that the good things going on are not being expressed to the American people; that only death and destruction make it to the front pages.
What do they expect? I certainly don’t recall seeing anything in the headlines on Sept. 12, 2001, on how many people didn’t get killed or injured the day before, and how many schools were opened that day, and how only one part of one city got destroyed.
MIKE COHEN
Studio City
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Instead of chastising the media for presenting a less-than-rosy picture of the Iraq-Afghanistan mess, why doesn’t the Bush administration do what it does in Iraq -- write the “news” stories itself? Oh wait, it can’t. Darn that pesky free press!
TOM MERTZ
Los Angeles
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