Master of the Obvious: Media "Too Polarized" on Iraq

A panel discussion organized by Reuters agreed on one thing about Iraq: that the media coverage of Iraq is "too polarized" between good news and bad news. Therefore, "the complete story is not being told."

Groundbreaking.

"If you write a 'good news' story from Iraq you are immediately identified as an apologist for the administration ... and if you write something critical then you're in the other camp," said Roger Cohen, a columnist for the International Herald Tribune who was recently in Iraq.

The only question I have is, apart from a few blogs and an occasional story on Fox, where else do you see the "good news" from Iraq being told at all? At best, maybe it's a 90%/10% ratio? I can think of a few other words that are more accurate than "polarizing" and most are synonymous with "negative."