Media Rule #1: If Good News, Simply Ignore

Captain's Quarters points out some good news from Afghanistan (the first war that worked out so well that it doesn't get any media coverage):

The Taliban, who once embodied the ideal of Islamofascism in their brutal tyranny over the Afghan people, have all but stopped their terrorist war against the Hamid Karzai democracy. In fact, thanks to a high-ranking and popular defector from the previous regime, the Taliban remnants have surrendered in order to join an amnesty program that promises to end the civil war and secure the Afghani democracy.

Read the whole thing here.