Over the past few years I’ve become quite a fan of BBC World News, and I get much of my news from their websites. As an American, I find it somewhat frustrating that I have to get my US news from foreign sources, and every once in a while I’ll go back to reading US news sites. Within a day or two, I’m back to my regular sources. It just gets worse and worse.

I went to Fox News for info on Iraq and found this headline.

Iraqis Train to Be Elite Security Fighters
Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds are working together to protect their homeland. And they’re trained by American soldiers to do it.

That’s not Journalism. It reads like something straight out of Pravda. Peoples putting aside their differences to join together to proudly protect the homeland. All that’s missing is the starry-eyed vacuous quote. Ah here we go.

“I feel good because we are fighting the terrorists”, said one Iraqi commando.

I think it’s important that Iraq has begun developing its own security forces, but the article contained no information about the actual program its successes, or its significant difficulties.

American news these days seems to be more about conveying a feeling or an impression rather than information.

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