Washington Post: All Over the Place?
This morning’s Washington Post article on Iraq seems disjointed at best. It begins with a description of a recent attack in Kirkuk, but it then degenerates into a haphazard conglomeration of facts and quotations about the war.
This type of reporting makes it difficult for the reader to get a clear picture of the war. On one hand, it quotes statistics that indicate civilian deaths are down, and the article seems to indicate that US control of the country is rising. On the other hand, the main focus of the article–the recent bombing–indicates a civil war of increasing intensity.
However, there is a certain advantage to fact-heavy reporting. A more coherent article would focus on either the US military gains or the regional ethnic conflicts. The result of such an article would be a more distorted perception of the war; at least the random back-and-forth of this article denies the reader the ease of an easy answer to the war.
Maybe that’s why it’s so frustrating to read.
Iraq, Kirkuk, Bombing, Washington Post
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