Could any report on this, the sixth day of the slaughter in this unjust war, be more revealing of the failure of American journalism, even of America? This is the actual NYTimes headline, spread in two horizontal lines across all six columns of the front page of the "Late Edition" this morning:ALLIES AND IRAQIS BATTLE ON 2 FRONTS;
This goes well beyond the effrontery in the famous pre-World War II headline in the Times of London: "Fog in Channel: Continent isolated."
20 AMERICANS DEAD OR MISSING, 5O HURT
Unless "the newpaper of record" is reporting that after five days no Iraqis are dead or hurt, the Times is joining our fascist regime, and most Americans, in refusing to recognize the humanity of our victims.
"All the News That's Fit to Print"
[This headline doesn't appear online right now. If it was there earlier, it's now been succeeded by another which is more distanced.]