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To: Dennis O'Bell who wrote (131290)	5/4/2004 2:57:05 AM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Dennis O'Bell, re: "endless posts gleefully spamming SI with every minor setback in whatever is going on in Iraq. Journalists have long since run out of synonyms in their well worn Roget's. Quagmire, Spiraling Out Of Control, Cycle of Violence, Growing Concern..." I get weary of all the hawkish rhetoric about how the press is spreading "bad" news. I'd be happy to hear a more accurate description of the trend in Iraq. What would you term it? Would you use "going swimmingly" versus "quagmire?" Would you use "moving in the right direction" as opposed to "spiraling out of control?" Would you use "the growing stability" versus "cycle of violence?" Would you use "growing confidence" as opposed to "growing concern?" I'd like to hear the words you'd use to describe it. Are you upset with bad reporting or are you upset with the accurate reporting of bad news?

To: Dennis O'Bell who wrote (131290)	5/4/2004 9:26:03 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 281500

Seeing a problem, and reporting it, does not mean you want the problem to be there. If terrible things are happening, should the press not report them? This is, as you probably know, a semi-free country, and we are supposed to vote, and in order to vote we are supposed to be informed. Does it not destroy the entire underpinning of our democracy if we do not have access to news of the negative as well as the positive? Plenty of positive being spun out of the White House- much of it turns out not to be true, but still, there is a stream of positive. Just for fun you should look at Stars and Stripes. My husband looked at it last week, and it didn't even mention Iraq. Now that's the kind of news that will build an informed electorate.