What if they gave a war, and the wrong guys won?

http://www.outsidethewire.com/blog/outside-the-wire/doesnt-look-lost-to-me.html

It struck me while reading this post by an embedded reporter in Al-Anbar province of Iraq that the media will soon kill stories about Iraq. The reason is, the wrong guys are winning. After telling us non-stop and with utter conviction (see everything ever written about Iraq by John Simpson) that America could not win in Iraq, the media now face a situation where exactly that is happening. How will they respond? They will snuff out the story. Whenever our marxist media see a story panning out the wrong way, that story will go into the deep freeze. So in exactly the same way that news from New Orleans stopped abruptly when the federal troops and trucks full of supplies showed up, Iraq will appear in our newspapers and on our TV screens as often as Panama does (Panama was a completely successful US intervention). More than at any time I can remember, the role that big media sees for itself is to automatically, dogmatically and obdurately oppose British and American positive actions in the world.

How much press did the huge American naval and marine humanitarian mission in Banda Aceh get in comparison with the rude hijinks at Abu-Ghraib? The first story was a one day, page 41 half-a-paragraph, while the second ran for forty consecutive days on the front page of the New York Times. All of the non-mainstream news sources reporting on Iraq point to three big changes- the Sunni Arabs turning against Al-Qaeda in Iraq; the suppression of militia murder in Baghdad; and the success of small-scale infantry dispersal tactics in cutting out most opportunities for insurgent activity all over Iraq. I can't find reference to any of this in most mainstream media outlets. The Daily Telegraph, which used to be very sound on matters military has gone completely fluffy. Most of the rest of media seem to take pride in knowing nothing about the military campaigns except to assure us they are going badly.

But there will come a tipping point where even the most rigidly orthodox America-hater will not be able to deny that the situation in Iraq is turning around. And at that point, everything will go silent and the Iraq insurgency will be forgotten and the mainstream media will try to pretend they were never interested in it. Just like in the Soviet Union, history will be subjected to 'cleansing' to make sure that no ideologically incorrect lessons can be learned from it.

We need a new media. Ours is broken.