The failure of hotel journalism.
Several people have pointed out this Normblog post linking to, and quoting from, an article by Bartle Bull in Prospect Magazine. Iraq is not about America any more. This has been increasingly true every day since last June, and the failure – or refusal – to recognise this has underpinned much of the misleading coverage of Iraq. In the evenings leading up to the election, I sat on carpets on … Continue reading