The number of people who believe that Saddam Hussein's Iraq actually possessed weapons of mass destruction must by now be in single digits. However the fact that the US has finally abandoned the search for WMD still seems newsworthy - after all, wasn't a war launched on the strength of that falsehood, resulting in thousands of deaths and years of bloody chaos? But as Salon reports: "If you missed this bit of news, that's because in our town's newspaper, a little publication called the New York Times [...] it was buried inside on A10 in a 240-word news brief." (My emphasis.)
(I can't wait to see how Daniel Okrent, the NYT "public editor", explains this one.)
Posted by geoff2 at January 12, 2005 10:56 PM