January 24, 2004

What is News?

The top story in the New York Times this Saturday, Jan. 24, 2004:
David Kay, the Administration's WMD hunter, said he thinks Iraq had no chemical or biological weapons at the onset of the US preememptive attack.
Today's Albuquerque Journal caries no story on that subject.
Bias? I doubt it. So? So the possibilities abound. There may be more than one. I don't know, but I am tempted to credit New Mexico provincialism, which is diminishing but hasn't quite vanished.
Hey, how much does it matter, really?
Remember what Paul Wolfowitz told us - WMD was (were?) a convenient pretext. To alter Joni James' beautiful lament just a trifle, why don't we believe him?

Posted by Arthur Alpert at January 24, 2004 11:57 AM