Arianna Huffington: On Petraeus and the Press

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Arianna Huffington runs one of the most successful blogs in existence, The Huffington Post, and certainly doesn't need my help with promotion. She has an extensive list of talented contributors, but her writing is excellent in its own right.

Her latest editorial perfectly nails it. Like me, she's fed up with our he said/he said press. They dutifully report what the White House has to say, and then report what the opposition said in response. Rarely do they offer what the actual truth is. Like Arianna says, "I guess we just can't know anything, can we?" Read on.

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Denying the Truth: Petraeus, Iraq, and Our Pontius Pilate Press

. . .So the American people get it, and the Democrats running for president and trying to win their votes get it. Then why do so many in the media still not get it?

In Sunday's New York Times, Michael Gordon, Judy Miller's former partner in the Ahmed Chalabi vaudeville production of "Saddam's Got WMD," served up a fact-challenged piece of administration propaganda in which he asserted, "The most comprehensive and up-to-date military statistics show that American forces have made some headway toward a crucial goal of protecting the Iraqi population."

Talk about drinking the Kool-Aid. Nowhere does Gordon point out that the methodology the Pentagon uses to arrive at the comprehensive stats he cites has been thoroughly discredited, as shown by the Washington Post. . .

Read the rest at: HuffingtonPost.com