PAYING TO PRINT …

Big to-do over the government paying Iraq newspapers to print positive stories about the troops and their successes in Iraq.

All the media have picked it up and the hue and cry is, er, colorful and noisy.

It would be another non-issue if the media coverage of Iraq actually was true journalism – defined as “the discipline of collecting, analyzing, validating and presenting information gathered” – rather than the agenda driven, biased, oft-moronic ramblings of people who get paid to write lots of words.

But then people might actually get “news” rather than “editorial.”