The Watcher’s Council has announced its picks for the most outstanding posts of the preceding week. The winning Council post was Joshuapundit’s post, “Genocide? What Genocide?â€, on the situation in Darfur. Second place honors went to Right Wing Nut House’s post “The Art and Artifice of War Reportingâ€.
War reporting was the favored topic for non-Council winning posts, too. The winning non-Council post was Flopping Aces’ post, “Getting the News from the Enemyâ€. The second place non-Council post was my nomination, Patterico’s Pontifications’ post, “Is the L. A. Times Repeating Enemy Propaganda?â€. I think the answer is “Yes” and very clever of our enemies to turn our own news media against us, too. I honestly don’t believe there’s any particular malice on the part of the news media in this, however. I attribute this to small overseas news budgets (and perhaps lack of willingness on the part of reporters to brave the danger and dig for stories), laziness, and ingrained habits.
For a complete list of the results see here.
