For what it's worth...
I saw Hussein on TV this morn, and Peter Jennings did an excellent job
of old Murrow-style radio reporting... describing scenes without the aid
of a TV camera. Jennings described a beaten down man, thin, polite,
alert, tangling with the judge once.
I have since seen the usual American news stuff about that -- CNN
subheaders included "Look, the pimp is speaking" and accredited the
statement to an anonymous janitor. Great journalism.
BBC was better -- including some factual reporting on what he said about
Kuwait and the chemical weapons against Kurds.
Jennings remains the objective reporter, as far as I have seen. He was
in the court room.
Rather than get outraged at the media's false editorializing, I would
encourage people to actually ask people to look at the statements.
Mention Jennings' objective reporting.
Ken.
--
I am the passenger
And I ride and I ride
I ride through the city's backside
I see the stars come out of the sky
Yeah, they're bright in a hollow sky
You know it looks so good tonight
-- "The Passenger"
Iggy Pop, 1977
www.american-buddha.com/iggy.passenger.htm
