Alice was beginning to get very tired of the War Hawks flapping their wings and their bleeding gum so she decided to ignore Beltway Pundits and go straight to reporting one Saturday morning.
Sitting on her porch, she was surprised to see White Rabbit deliver the paper at 7:45. Every day the paper was delivered. The surprise was how each day it arrived later and later.
Skimming through The New York Times, she happened upon an article by Sabrina of Tavernise. The article was titled in a 'balanced' manner: "U.S. and Iraqi Accounts Vary Concerning Airstrke That Kills At Least 20."
"Oh, a difference of opinion," thought Alice excitedly because she knew how this turned out.
The article was about a Friday, US military airstrike. The first sentence noted that Iraqis and the US military disagreed on the results of the airstrike. Paragraph three told her that the Iraqis claimed "as many as 10 children" were killed in the airstrike while the US military said only 20 adults had been killed.
For nine more paragraphs, she read the American side and a lot of boring background.
Then she quickly came to two paragraphs explaining the Iraqi side
Then it was a denial by the US military.
"Will this article ever get to the point?" wondered Alice, because she knew how the events turned out.
Finally, Sabrina of Tavernise wrote that images had been shown on "Iraqi satellite channel, Sharqiya".
"At last," said Alice aloud as she waited for the next point to be made.
But it never came.
Where was it?
Had the words slid off the page into a puddle on the ground?
No, they were still on the page.
But no matter how hard she searched, how closely she read the article, she found nothing it about the Associated Press had a photo of one of the corpses and it was the corpse of a ten-year-old boy.
No matter how hard she searched, how closely she read the article, she found noting in it about the AFP having reportes in the village who saw children among the corpses or that when, confronted with the photos, US military flack Christopher Garver denied them as proof that children had been killed by the air raid.
Giving up, she took the paper inside and used it to start a fire in the fire place.
"At last, the paper has a use," declared Alice. "Since I do not fish, I had no use for wrapping fish in it. But now the paper has a use it fits rather beautifully."
Watching the flames, Alice wondered about this Sabrina of Tavenise. How could someone who wrote so much say know so little?
Sitting on her porch, she was surprised to see White Rabbit deliver the paper at 7:45. Every day the paper was delivered. The surprise was how each day it arrived later and later.
Skimming through The New York Times, she happened upon an article by Sabrina of Tavernise. The article was titled in a 'balanced' manner: "U.S. and Iraqi Accounts Vary Concerning Airstrke That Kills At Least 20."
"Oh, a difference of opinion," thought Alice excitedly because she knew how this turned out.
The article was about a Friday, US military airstrike. The first sentence noted that Iraqis and the US military disagreed on the results of the airstrike. Paragraph three told her that the Iraqis claimed "as many as 10 children" were killed in the airstrike while the US military said only 20 adults had been killed.
For nine more paragraphs, she read the American side and a lot of boring background.
Then she quickly came to two paragraphs explaining the Iraqi side
Then it was a denial by the US military.
"Will this article ever get to the point?" wondered Alice, because she knew how the events turned out.
Finally, Sabrina of Tavernise wrote that images had been shown on "Iraqi satellite channel, Sharqiya".
"At last," said Alice aloud as she waited for the next point to be made.
But it never came.
Where was it?
Had the words slid off the page into a puddle on the ground?
No, they were still on the page.
But no matter how hard she searched, how closely she read the article, she found nothing it about the Associated Press had a photo of one of the corpses and it was the corpse of a ten-year-old boy.
No matter how hard she searched, how closely she read the article, she found noting in it about the AFP having reportes in the village who saw children among the corpses or that when, confronted with the photos, US military flack Christopher Garver denied them as proof that children had been killed by the air raid.
Giving up, she took the paper inside and used it to start a fire in the fire place.
"At last, the paper has a use," declared Alice. "Since I do not fish, I had no use for wrapping fish in it. But now the paper has a use it fits rather beautifully."
Watching the flames, Alice wondered about this Sabrina of Tavenise. How could someone who wrote so much say know so little?
