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Don't hold back – tell me how you really feel

An American tank crew explains their war plan:“Today Baghdad, Tomorrow Paris”. [source]

I try to be cynical but it's hard to keep up

As bad as American journalists are, apparently foreign ones are even worse. As Jonathan Last says,

On the one hand, it's frightening to realize that the global media operate on a professional level roughly equivalent to a bad college paper. But on the other hand, it's a little bit liberating: After all, with press like this, no wonder the rest of the world hates us--America really is besieged by a vast, left-wing conspiracy.

An Instantman correspondent claims that a better description would be “more of a half-vast left-wing conspiracy”.