The Media Picture

Instapundit blogs about how difficult it is at this point to determine what's going on from the media reports, how many tiny slices of information confuse, rather than clarify, the big picture. He hints that this is the point of the program, to give much information and little knowledge.

He's probably right, but there are other angles to this as well. For one thing, we have reporters on the spot to dispell the kind of myths that arose around the Israeli fighting in Jenin. We have a fantastic set of slices to fill out the story, once the war is over and the outline is known, which will make the history of this war much easier to capture, at least from our side. And finally, we have lessened the most dangerous enemy the US can face: Western media hysteria.

Obviously, we haven't eliminated the last, and won't as long as the BBC is around. Oh, and the French. And colleges in general (hat tip: LGF). And the New York Times. Oh, hell, it would be easier to list the media institutions that are generally on the side of Western Enlightenment culture!