During the Desert Shield militareporter friend from Texas for drinks one evening. How refreshing it was to hear him acknowledge the obvious. Sometimes reporters simply don't know what they're writing, or talking about. Unfortunately, the vast majority of them will never acknowledge the obvious, so this column will deal with some of their more inane utterances of 1997 to prove the point.
Some reporters are just hell-bent on finding dark clouds in any positive news.
The opposite is also the case if it involves one of those pet causes so dear to the leftist press and which just won't go away, no matter how wrong-headed the impulse, or irrelevant the issue. Cuba is a classic case in point, and the media just can't stop fawning over Castro's Marxist ghetto. Which explains all those boat people leaving Miami for Havana, I suppose. When reporters are unable to fathom the wretchedness of communism, they are genuinely puzzled to see its victims bolt for freedom. Back in February ABC's Peter Jennings was covering the defection of North Korean official Hwang Jang Yop.