I recent weeks the Guardian has had articles by Richard Perle, Peter Mandelson, Tony Blair and numerous other people who are wholly opposed to the editorial line taken by the Guardian. The letter pages carry correspondence from people on both sides in this disagreement. Here is a link to the paper if anyone wants to check up on that kind of thing - The Guardian

That is the kind of thing that good newspapers do. Now I don't have any idea as to what newpapers Doug would favour, but it might be interested to know if it regularly fomnds space for articles and letters from people who are opposed to American policy on the war.

Getting shot at is one of the risks of the business for a war reporter, and inevitably some of them get killed. But the sniping that is really dirty is the stuff that comes sometimes comes from press briefings and from politicians, when they pretend that a refusal to be prejudiced is the same as being hostile, and when they rubbish reporters whoi are risking their lives for resisting being made into propagandists.