Do journalists unthinkingly side with America's enemies? Consider this Associated Press headline on a Baghdad dispatch: "U.S. Troop Deaths Show Sunni Resilience."
Can you imagine the AP or any other "mainstream" news outlet using the same headline in reverse: "Sunni Deaths Show U.S. Troops' Resilience"? We didn't think so.
Of course, this doesn't prove that whoever wrote the AP headline was unthinkingly siding with the enemy. But the alternative is worse, isn't it?
Can you imagine the AP or any other "mainstream" news outlet using the same headline in reverse: "Sunni Deaths Show U.S. Troops' Resilience"? We didn't think so.
Of course, this doesn't prove that whoever wrote the AP headline was unthinkingly siding with the enemy. But the alternative is worse, isn't it?
James Taranto/Wall Street Journal
