I'm glad that the number one story is something we don't like to admit in America: our negative impact on the world. My biggest problem with the coverage of the war, besides the sloppy reporting leading up to the start, is that, unless it's within a positive, spin-inducing context, the lives and hardships of ordinary Iraqis are rarely mentioned, besides obligatory daily death tolls, which are even then undershot. I would have loved (in some context of that word) to have heard about what it was like to live in chaos, in a live warzone, years after our mission had been ''accomplished''. But now the only stories they run are on how great the invasion has been for Iraq, regardless of a million or so dead.
And another good "alternative" media source would have the be
www.indymedia.org . It's pretty reliable, I'd say, and they offer unique perspectives on the issues.