March 18, 2003

'Media watchdogs caught napping'
....rolling over, licking their nonexistant genitalia, going back to sleep.
Foreign news websites are seeing large volumes of traffic from America, as U.S. citizens increasingly seek real news coverage about the coming war.

"Given how timid most U.S. news organizations have been in challenging the White House position on Iraq, I'm not surprised if Americans are turning to foreign news services for a perspective on the conflict that goes beyond freedom fries," said Deborah Branscom, a Newsweek contributing editor.

The only debate in the U.S. media is on the web, Jon Dennis, a Guardian Unlimited deputy news editor, said. "Weblogs are doing all the work that the U.S. media did in the past," he said. "That's an interesting development." - link.


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