Instapundit linked up this very interesting excerpt from the upcoming book "Embedded: The Media at War in Iraq, an Oral History."

Yeah, it was an absolutely disgraceful performance. CNN's Eason Jordan's op-ed piece in The New York Times missed that point completely. The point is not whether we protect the people who work for us by not disclosing the terrible things they tell us. Of course we do. But the people who work for us are only one thousandth of one percent of the people of Iraq. So why not tell the story of the other people of Iraq? It doesn't preclude you from telling about terror. Of murder on a mass scale just because you won't talk about how your driver's brother was murdered.

Read the whole thing before you start ranting about my radical cheerleading.

Say what you will about Fox News, they make absolutely no apologies about their point of view. I know which particular set of filters to put on when I watch them. Nobody knew CNN was giving kickbacks to the information ministry until they got caught, and no real changes were made afterword. And yet I hear constant prattling about how awful Fox News is and yet nary a peep about CNN. Just who do you trust? Are you sure?

I'm sorry, if I have to choose between Quisling and Goebbels, I'll choose Goebbels every time. At least he isn't hiding the knife.