Last night, a journalism professor (who seemed pretty conservative - I didn’t get his name, but he was from George Mason U.) on PBS’ “Newshour” was talking about the “negative” focus on reporting from Iraq, and brought up something I don’t think is mentioned often enough in the criticism of the WORMs:

Hero stories are almost completely absent in this war.

I’m a little young to know for certain myself, but this professor said even during Vietnam the media did features on soldiers who demonstrated special bravery, concern for their men or civilians, etc. - human interest stories on some of the best of the best.

Ever since the rescue of Pvt. Jessica Lynch, and the claims it was “staged,” no media outlet I’ve seen has done a single story on a soldier or group of soldiers who performed a daring, selfless mission.

This obviously intentional omission may be the worst slur against our military forces the mainstream media has made - and they’ve made a lot.