I think that the Iraq war has had at least one salutary effect, and that is in smoking out the outright dishonesty and bias of much of the Western media.
Again I give you the CBC. On The National tonight, reporter Don Murray described Bush's arrival in London as disembarking from -- and I quote -- "his Imperial Flying Chariot."
Ha, ha. Stop it, Don, yer killin' me. (I'd provide a link to it, but the CBC's website points to the wrong clip, and it doesn't work anyway. Real professional outfit you're running there, Mothercorp.)
This sort of snide, sophomoric editorializing suffuses the CBC's coverage and it's absolutely incinerating whatever credibility it had left.
Not to overlook American and Arab media, who are being blasted by even the Iraqis for their one-sided reports:
U.S. TV network news about Iraq as distorted as al-Jazeera? Checking in from Iraq on Wednesday’s Hardball with Chris Matthews as part of that show’s look this week at “Iraq: The Real Story,” Bob Arnot highlighted a Muslim ayatollah in Iraq who “is furious at the press coverage. He says not only American television, but Arabic satellite TV, such as Al-Jazeera and the Abu Dhabi station, have mis-portrayed the great success that is Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein."
From the Media Research Center. I suggest you read, as they say, the whole thing.