Art, the purpose of the media is not to report "two day sensations", it's to report what's actually happening. Whether it happens in a media market dominated by a few major players is a matter for discussion, but that is the basic purpose of having a free media.

I don't have a problem with her wanting to stay out of it - it wasn't her (or her family) that created this. But if the military go to the trouble of creating a "media event" one day, you can't call foul when the same media report later that actually it was all a snow job.

Thanks for the link to that news article. As you say, it seems it's not a new story; however this is the first that most of us have heard of it.

Graham.