I was only really half listening to the ABC news last night, as I was cooking dinner at the same time. I was waiting for it to be time for Olbermann, and so left it on whatever channel it had landed on the night before. I was expecting the news to be the usual, water-skiing squirrels, Anna Nicole still dead, etc. Contrary to my expectations the news did a piece onthe fact that the main source the lies upon which this war is based, an Iraqi 'scientist,' codename 'Curveball.' And to my further my surprise the news reported what every kos reader has known since the war began: that Curveball was lying and the people who were using his testimony about the non-existant Iraqi nuclear program were repeatedly and in no certain terms advised that he was lying. At the time I just thought "Well, I knew that BEFORE the war started," and went back to preparing the roux for creamed spinach.
But then I couldn't stop thinking about the report.
I must admit that I'm not a big watcher of television news, as watching television news is usually annoying. So I don't know if the question I'm going to ask is in any way germane or fair.
It's belated, this reporting of the truth. In fact, it's insultingly belated, considering the death and destruction that has been dealt out to civilians and soldiers alike.
And yet, the news reported the truth about something important. ABC reported on the use of lies to begin the war, as it happened without bringing in some chickenhawk Republican sophist to rationalize or defend the lie for the sake of 'balance.'
I've got this suspicion though. So here i go with the asking.
Is it just me or is this a departure from the kind of reporting we grown to expect from television news?
I'm scratching my head over this. Is it possible that things are changing for the better, or am i grasping at any opportunity to be hopeful? Are there those at the ABC news who recognize that they don't have to be Republican mouthpieces?
Anybody out there watch ABC news regularly?
Update: I origianlly attribted this to CBS, have corrected. It was on ABC. Apologies, I was trying to measure things while I was listening to this story,