I Hate You Reuters
Why is this:
Bush, who avoided combat in Vietnam while serving as a pilot in the Texas Air National Guard, calls himself a war president for his re-election campaign against Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, a decorated Vietnam veteran.
even in this story? It has exactly nothing to do with the rest of the item and is completely irrelevant to the story at hand. There’s also this:
However, Iraq has become a political liability for the president in recent months, with the approaching June 30 handover to an Iraqi interim government overshadowed by insurgent violence and a scandal over abuse of Iraqi prisoners.
I’ll agree that Iraq might be a good place for Bush’s opponents to talk about how their policy would be better, but that whole paragraph is an opinion. I’m so sick of bad news writing that I don’t even want to bother reading news anymore, and that’s quite sad.
UPDATE: A hugely long Den Beste piece on news coverage here
