This item will warm the hearts of all right-wingers who have been pissing and moaning about the failure of the media to report the “good news” from Iraq. A sample:

“Somewhere in Iraq today, a young woman has learned to bake a cake. But because the media insists on covering beheadings and torture, we will never hear about it. This failure is our collective failure as American citizens….[W]e must learn to demand more from our media….

“Rush Limbaugh last week repeatedly [complained] that ‘one of the biggest impediments to winning the war is television and pictures.’

“Rush is right about this. Unless the entire audience is behind the venture, war makes pretty bad television. Not many Americans are going to be thrilled to watch video of armless children in the hospital after an American bombing raid (my father did one such report for NBC), or look at pictures of abuse of Iraqi prisoners. Nick Ut’s famous ‘running girl’ photo from the Vietnamese village of Trang Bang did a lot to undermine that war effort, mainly because ultimately Americans were not so angry with the Vietnamese for meddling in the affairs of their own country that they could really feel good about napalming little girls. As Newsweek uber-hack Jonathan Alter hinted last week, these same kinds of images now coming from Iraq might become acceptable if we could only learn to hate the enemy more.”