"The Afghan War Will Be Won And Lost On Media Propaganda"

Further to this post, a good one by Raphael Alexander. I would add that the Canadian Forces are treated--with some reason--as sources of information to be taken sceptically by our media. The Taliban, on the other hand are simply treated as holy hot poop inside sources to be regurgitated almost uncritically.

Holy double standard. Can you imagine our media giving Mafia sources equal, if not greater, credibility than government ones? But then I guess most people--even "journalists"--actually recognize that the Mafia are bad people, not to be trusted.

An odd separation of perceptions regarding events foreign and domestic. For more, er, context remember the number of deaths (including Canadian "civilians") in Quebec's "biker wars" ("Around 160 people were killed, including nine people with no connection to the gangs, among them an 11 year-old-boy."). Where was the century count-down then? Stinkin' agendas.