MEDIA QUAGMIRE



Mark Steyn has officially moved into first place in my list of favorite columnists (and he's a Canadian, for peet's sake):

After little more than a week, is this war coverage in trouble? Already questions are being raised about whether the media's plan was fatally flawed. Several analysts are surprised that, despite overwhelming dominance of the air, television and radio divisions have so quickly repeated the mistakes of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, on the ground, rapidly advancing columns become stalled in Vietnam-style quagmires around the second paragraph.

You get the gist. Check out the entire commentary here.