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Delusions of "reality".(The media)(the Iraq war)(Viewpoint essay)

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| January 01, 2007 | Bowman, James | COPYRIGHT 2007 Foundation for Cultural Review. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Not long ago, as I was listening to a BBC reporter describing the latest terrorist outrage in Baghdad--scores killed ... deteriorating security situation ... Iraqi government helpless ... military untrained and disorganized ... terrorists operating at will, etc.--it occurred to me that, even if all that the reporter had said were perfectly true it was also exactly what the terrorists would have said if they could have written his script for him. Did this matter? Was it just a coincidence that the "reality" of the Iraq war, endlessly repeated and identified as such by the news media, so closely resembled the terrorist "narrative," as our brainy students of textual ...

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