Thursday, August 14, 2008

misinformation? or worse?

I continue to be amazed at the coverage of the Georgian conflict in the US. There's still almost no mention of the initial barrage of South Ossetia by the Georgian forces that killed by far the most civilians. Just the other day, I was reading an account of Georgians fleeing, with eight people stuffed in a Lada, and some trying to get away on a tractor. Scary and sad - if only I didn't read the same exact account much earlier in a Russian story that described the flight of the Ossetians after the Georgian slaughter.

The only person to get the situation right? John Stewart, who masterfully outlined the hypocrisy of the American position:

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