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Instapundit highlighted an....
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   ....[1]an amazing admission by a reporter on CNN's Reliable Sources.

     KURTZ: Pam Hess, has the sending of 20,000 additional troops gotten
     a fair hearing in the media or has it gotten caught up in this
     wrenching, emotional debate about whether the war itself was a
     mistake?
     PAM HESS: I think it's gotten caught up about it, and the debate
     about it is actually all wrong. What reporters know and what Martha
     says is that 20,000 really isn't that big -- isn't that big a jump.
     We're at 132,000 right now. It's going to put us even less that we
     had going in going across the line.
     What we're not asking is actually the central question. We're
     getting distracted by the shiny political knife fight. What we need
     to be asking is, what happens if we lose? And no one will answer
     that question. If we lose, how are we going to mitigate the
     consequences of this?
     It's so much easier for us to cover this as a political horse race.
     It's on the cover of "The New York Times" today, what this means
     for the '08 election. But we're not asking the central national
     security question, because it seems that if as a reporter you do
     ask the national security question, all of a sudden you're carrying
     Bush's water. There are national security questions at stake, and
     we're ignoring them and the country is getting screwed.

   Glenn's response?

     Better that the story should be missed, and the country screwed,
     than that a reporter might look unacceptably friendly to Bush!

   What a sad state of affairs. American citizens, working for the media,
   would rather sell out their own country than risk appearing to be
   friendly to Bush.
   Wouldn't it be nice if they would admit to that at the beginning of
   every news story?

References

   1. http://instapundit.com/archives2/2007/01/post_1691.php