Rumsfeld Says the Media Focus Too Much on Negatives in Iraq

[SOURCE: New York Times, AUTHOR: David Cloud]
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Monday that news media organizations were focusing too much on casualties and mistakes by the military in Iraq and were failing to provide a full picture of the progress toward stabilizing the country.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/06/international/middleeast/06rumsfeld.ht...
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