the news is simply regurgitated information through the news organizations pre-existing beliefs. this is a great story that uses basra as an example. how many have made sense of that? how many of us can figure out iraq? no matter what you read, it's like wading through garbage. that's why we need obama. he'll keep us informed.
depending on which news outlet you pay attention to you'll get a different story. we all know what we get at fox and we know what to expect from the new york times. do we ever get the truth? ever?
RCP: Yet despite the absence of any objective knowledge about what had happened, pro- and anti-war news organizations, talk radio shows, columnists, pundits and blogists leapt into the void -- invincibly ignorant of what had happened -- and immediately began making powerful arguments in support of their pre-existing positions. In the middle of a vital presidential election season, millions of American voters got misinformed on perhaps the central issue of the election that is critical to our national safety (whether misinformed for or against the war, we don't know yet).
