Connecting the Blips. “But looking back over Sunday ombudsman columns and reader challenges during that time and up through today, there is a pattern in the news pages of missing, underplaying or being late on various blips with respect to public voices of dissent or uncertainty. […] What, if anything, does this add up to? It does not mean Post news coverage is biased…” Right. [via Michael’s refreshed weblog]
Archives for March 2003
Robert Scheer in the LA Times:
A Naked Bid to Redraw World Map. “Whether this war is short or long, extremely bloody or just bloody, the stark fact is that a barely elected president has made the United States the first colonizer of the 21st century, openly declaring that he plans to reorder the politics, economy and culture of the Muslim world.”
The New York Times editorial:
War in the Ruins of Diplomacy. “This war crowns a period of terrible diplomatic failure, Washington’s worst in at least a generation.”
Yet more evidence
of important questions within the US about the upcoming war at MSNBC today: The Arrogant Empire. “But above all, [the US] must make the world comfortable with its power by leading through consensus. America’s special role in the world – its ability to buck history – is based not simply on its great strength, but on a global faith that this power is legitimate. If America squanders that, the loss will outweigh any gains in domestic security. And this next American century could prove to be lonely, brutish and short.”
