See Her in the Funny Papers
The plight of Knight Ridder reporter Hannah Allam, featured in today's Day By Day.
In this cartoon, Chris Muir points out another of Allam's reasons for leaving Iraq (as quoted in Editor and Publisher).
"When I first started, there was a real collegial press corp," she explained. "We knew Iraq was dangerous, but not for us. In the old days, we could travel, the coverage could be comprehensive and complete and you could have a life. Go out to karaoke at night or to parties."
But, in the past few months, Allam said the atmosphere had dramatically changed for journalists. "It suddenly came that you couldn't travel," she said. "You begin to wonder if you can give your readers a full picture. It is extremely difficult and not as much fun."
So ... she's outta there. Her speculation on not giving a full picture kind of proves Yost's original point about how the mainstream media isn't reporting the whole story about what is happening in Iraq. Ironically, it was Yost's comments which caused her to lash out with her ridiculous accusations about the US military being too sheltered from the truth about what is really happening in Iraq to accurately speak about it. Accusations which now seem like a classic case of projection:
"the operation of expelling feelings or wishes the individual finds wholly unacceptable - too shameful, too obscene, too dangerous - by attributing them to another."
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