Philadelphia Inquirer
Dick Polman recalls that
President John F. Kennedy tried to get New York Times correspondent
David Halberstam ejected from Vietnam because of his downbeat dispatches and
Vice President Spiro Agnew later skewered Vietnam-era reporters as "nattering nabobs of negativism." But the attacks on the Iraq coverage may set new standards for both fervor and frequency, says Polman.
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Some academics suggest the Iraq war coverage isn't so different from the way past wars have been covered.
(SF Chronicle)
