[lbo-talk] burying the lede

[Carrol Cox]

If this explanation of the Post action is correct (with its implication
that the running of the news stories today was a conscious political
decision), then we have one more illustration of the unity at the very
top levels of ruling class circles on the necessity of maintaining u.s.
military presence in Iraq.

Carrol

Doug Henwood wrote:
> 
> <http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238&page=2>
> 
> On any other day, the Thomas Ricks story that the chief of
> intelligence for the Marine Corps in Iraq "recently filed an unusual
> secret report concluding that the prospects for securing that
> country's western Anbar province are dim and that there is almost
> nothing the U.S. military can do to improve the political and social
> situation there" would be of seismic importance.
> 
> But the Washington Post does the White House a favor by running the
> Ricks story as well a story on Sadr's evolving role on this busy news
> day.