The Truth Can't Stop a Good Story

I've come across these two news stories recently and it really troubles me that the media isn't running with them. First, there's the news that Private Jessica Lynch's dramatic rescue in Iraq was largely overblown. It turns out that the Pentagon exaggerated the danger of the mission, as Iraqi witnesses at the hospital are saying that the raid was unnecessary. Funny how the media fell in love with the story of Lynch's ordeal, but now I don't see the true story on the cover of Newsweek.

Then there's the story that Saddam's bunker, which was the target of the war's opening raid, never actually existed. Even though Donald Rumsfeld told us that "there's no question but that the strike...was successful," after the attack, we now learn that it was pretty much for naught. Does this mean that the military started the war based on "intelligence" that turns out was completely false? It's like they stole the plot of this season's 24.

Isn't it funny how stories that are embarrassing for the Pentagon (like the traitorous soldier who fired on his own batallion) are so easily forgotten by the American media?