A Free Press … Well Kinda

America is justifiably proud of its free press. It even brings in foreign journalists from places like Iraq to give them U.S. government sponsored classes on how a free press should act. Like: don’t be taken in by, or print, government propoganda. The Iraqis are reportedly impressed by the classes. I wonder what they’ll make of the fact that the Pentagon has hired an agency to write ‘upbeat news stories’ to place in the local Iraqi press to put forward a ‘more realistic’ view than the [apparently not free enough and presumably inaccurate] local press is already doing? I guess they won’t be upset that the agency sub-contracted the writing to someone else who, and this is just a coincidence, happened to be a former bigwig of the Republican Party. Do as I say, not do as I do? Anyway, as I said, America should be proud of its free press.