Saw a panel of newspaper editor's on last night's Jim Lehrer News Hour, among whom was Howell Raines. The editors were chiefly discussing the coverage of the past year's three big stories, 9/11, the Catholic Church scandal, and the War on Terror and proposed War on Iraq. When the subject turned towards Iraq, Raines said, "One of the lessons of Vietnam was that you should ask questions before you start the war." When the moderator replied that Raines' critics claimed that Raines was not asking questions, but providing answers, Raines just huffed a little and said, "my critics have their own ideological viewpoint." First time he has spoken on the issue to my knowledge, but it's not much of an answer. Still, the stories of the last two weeks have done much less editorializing. Perhaps Keller's reproof could not be so easily dismissed?
BTW, the NY Times published a correction today where they admitted that they had misrepresented Kissinger's views. Then they restated Kisinger's views and mistated them again, though not as obviously. |
