Saturday, October 13, 2007

Cherry Picking Sanchez

For those who heard blurbs of retired Gen Sanchez' speech, it is not as it was reported...

It seems that half of the message retired General Richard Sanchez intended to deliver missed the cut at most newsrooms, and with most bloggers. Typical among the reports of his blistering oration is the front-page treatment given by the Washington Post's Josh White, the entire first half of Snachez' speech -- found in its entirety here -- gets reduced to a single paragraph at the end of the story. Why? Well, it turns out that Sanchez considered his first target the media itself, which he blames for a large part of the problems he sees in Iraq.

Read the entire analysis here.

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