NPR: Zarqawi's Death 'Symbolic

The US media continues to downplay the importance of the killing of Zarqawi by US forces. The headling on NPR's website:Terrorist Zarqawi Is Dead; Iraq's Insurgency Is NotA symbolic strike by U.S. forces may change little about the situation on the ground.I'll bet Zarqawi and his aides found the strike a little more than, "symbolic."
Joshua Sharf
 

Thursday Morning With Rita Braver

From an online Q&A with Rita Braver of CBS News. Who is the most fascinating person you've covered...Bill Clinton is probably the most fascinating person I've ever covered ... because he is both brilliant and flawed. I have never met anyone more charming ... or more exasperating. If you could change one thing about the profession of journalism, what would it be? I'd like to see everyone who…
Mithridate Ombud
 

CNN International Labels Jordanian Zarqawi 'Top Iraqi Insurgent

Rich Noyes
 

NYT's Strange Take on Zarqawi's Death -- 'Inspiration and Public Relat

Clay Waters
 

Zarqawi’s ‘Troubled Childhood’ Leads to Terror

Scott Whitlock
 

LA Times Looks for Trophy in a Win-Win Contest

Steve Lopez of the LA Times wants a cookie from conservatives after [his claim] the newspaper "both gutted and fileted" two democrats. I'm just wondering why the paper hasn't gotten huzzahs from the professional gas bags who worked themselves into a frenzy three years ago over our equally tough reporting on a candidate named Arnold Schwarzenegger.First, the reason might have something to do with…
Mithridate Ombud
 

Russert's Cold Water Shower: Things Can Get 'Dramatically Worse' In A

Tim Graham
 

ABC Rolls Out the R-word as Markets Dip Below

Reporter Stark warns a recession could be coming, ignores how well the economy is doing.
Ken Shepherd
 

There's No Bias or Hoping for Bad News in This AP Piece, Is There

Tom Blumer
 

What Will Post-Kaplan MSNBC Look Like

Matthew Sheffield
 

Al-Zarqawi Tracked By Iraq Informants

Warner Todd Huston
 

AP Gets Part of al-Zarqawi Story Wrong

John Matthews
 

All Three Cable Networks Featured Nick Berg's Dad, Who Compared Bush t

In May of 2004, Abu Musab Al Zarqawi participated in the beheading of Nicholas Berg, a businessman working in Iraq. His father, Michael, emerged in the aftermath of that crime as an outspoken liberal activist and is now running for Congress in Delaware on the Green Party ticket. So who better to bring on for a discussion about Zarqawi’s death? Michael Berg appeared on all three cable channels…
Scott Whitlock
 

If Yankees Stadium Were Iraq

Greg Sheffield