Rumsfeld Says the Media Focus Too Much on Negatives in Iraq

[SOURCE: New York Times, AUTHOR: David Cloud]
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Monday that news media organizations were focusing too much on casualties and mistakes by the military in Iraq and were failing to provide a full picture of the progress toward stabilizing the country.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/06/international/middleeast/06rumsfeld.html?pagewanted=all
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When public support for the Vietnam War sank in the late-1960s, President Nixon, often via his vice president, Spiro Agnew, blamed the "nattering nabobs" in the media (in speeches crafted by William Safire and Patrick Buchanan). Is history about to repeat itself?
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