Where never is heard a discouraging word

So the Iraqi President we helped install in power directly contradicts the Administration and neo-con claims that Iran is meddling in Iraq. (Via Juan Cole, Informed Comment)

Shouldn’t that be a front-page, above-the-fold, large-type headline itself? What is the reason why it won’t be? This is not the first time, either, that one of the leaders of the government we claim to be supporting has undermined the rationale for the war-drums against Iran. I don't recall any big to-do about any of those, either, if they were reported at all except in select locations.

What about the several polls indicating that the majority of Iraqis want the U.S. military occupation to come to an end either immediately or at least within a year, and believe that conditions of violence will improve with the U.S. occupation ended, not turn into a disaster worse than the one we created? Shouldn’t that be a front-page, above-the-fold, large-type headline, too? A weeklong dialog of talking heads on CNN, MSNBC – forget Fox – and a nightly one on NBC, CBS and ABC? Why isn’t that?

Aren't these vital pieces of information that Americans need in order to assess what is going on in their name in the world today? What do obviously deliberate blackouts like this tell us about American journalism today? About those who claim to be American journalists today?

After all, shouldn't we give Richard Perle, General McCaffrey, Joe Lieberman and John McCain the opportunity to argue that they understand Iraq better than the Iraqi people?