A Boston Globe Surprise....

I was surprised to see this column by Jeff Jacoby in The Boston Globe.

The announcement on Oct. 25 that the first genuinely democratic national charter in Arab history had been approved by 79 percent of Iraqis was a major piece of good news. It confirmed the courage of Iraq's people and their hunger for freedom and decent governance. It advanced the US campaign to democratize a country that for 25 years had been misruled by a mass-murdering sociopath. It underscored the decision by Iraq's Sunnis, who had boycotted the parliamentary elections in January, to pursue their goals through ballots, not bullets. And it dealt a humiliating blow to the bombers and beheaders -- to the likes of Islamist butcher Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who earlier this year declared ''a fierce war on this evil principle of democracy" and threatened to kill anyone who took part in the elections.

No question: If you think that defeating Islamofascism, extending liberty, and transforming the Middle East are important, it's safe to say you saw the ratification of the new constitution as the Iraqi news story of the week.

But that isn't how the mainstream media saw it.

The reason I am surprised to see this is that the Boston Globe is the left-wing test arm of the New York Times. The NYT owns the Boston Globe and some of the most wacky leftist reporting is reserved for the paper. When they have some wild-ass thing that isn't appropriate for the "newspaper of record," that is where it goes to see how it flies.

And don't forget this...

Poll after poll confirms the public's low level of confidence in mainstream media news. Gallup recently measured that confidence at 28 percent, an all-time low. Why such mistrust? The media's slanted coverage of Iraq provides a pretty good clue.

Polls don't really excite me that much, though but there is a sickness in the US media. As I have posted on time-and-time again, the media isn't really presenting news anymore, its pushing an agenda. And the American public is no longer buying it, literally.