Coleman McCarthy on "one-version news"

The Washington Post's Coleman McCarthy (who also founded The Center for Teaching Peace) writes on one-sided war coverage. While he says only C-SPAN offered "the left wing, the right wing and the whole bird," here's what he says about the rest of 'em:

The tube turned into a parade ground for military men -- all well-groomed white males -- saluting the ethic that war is rational, that bombing and shooting are the way to win peace, and that their uniformed pals in Iraq were there to free people, not slaughter them. Perspective vanished, as if caught in a sandstorm of hype and war-whooping. If the U.S. military embedded journalists to report the war from Iraq, journalists back in network studios embedded militarists to explain it. Either way, it was one-version news.

(Via Cursor.)