Glenn Reynolds has a couple posts up on our media’s portrayal of how things are going in Iraq right now. The clear slant of most news reports makes the situation look pretty depressing (I keep hearing the word “quagmire” in some corners), but independent reports from individuals who’ve visited Iraq during the last several months give more optimistic views.

It’s not the slant that made me switch majors from Journalism to English, but I wonder what would’ve happened if I’d stayed the course and actually become a journo. Would my articles have read just as bleak? Where does the fault lie - with the reporters or their editors?

At any rate, can someone slap some sense into these folks? Their bias is so clear that it’s almost as disgusting as watching some drunk idiot expose himself to a few kiddies in a playground.