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June 09, 2005
Press Bias, Fisk and Thucydides
This article by Keith Windschuttle is very interesting. He comes close to asking a question that has been on my mind ever since my first trip to Iraq in 2003. Why are reporters reporting the last war? It used to be generals who were accused of fighting the last war, but campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq were utterly new and weren't even similar to each other, let alone Vietnam. Windschuttle also makes some interesting points comparing Fisk's descriptions of bin Laden to British colonial descriptions of Arab leaders and details how press coverage has been skewed.
Posted by Richard Miniter at June 9, 2005 02:07 PM