One more quick swipe at “mainline news” organizations.
On the way home from work today, I listened to the ABC Radio news. The reporter in Iraq mentioned that the Baghdad Hotel was targeted with mortars, although nobody was injured.
All well and good. But the reporter couldn’t stand to have such an inconsequential report with her byline, so she added, “This is the same hotel which was hit several weeks ago when eight people were killed and thirty others injured.”
Okay. So what does that have to do with this report? Nothing…but we can’t have a report coming out of Iraq that doesn’t mention casualties, can we?