Two Faces of Fallujah

The Seattle Times does a nice job of contrasting the public exposure of both the Pentagon PR machine (text of briefing and PowerPoint slide presentation) and a popular anonymous photo-blog of the Fullajah tragedy. Though I applaud the story on one level, we see once again the press shying away from delivering a truthful image-account of the situation in Fallujah. In lieu of this, the "higher" press is content to cover the investigative work of the "lower" press, framing it instead as a larger PR battle for the hearts and minds of Americans - something akin to the widespread preference for horse-races over fact-checking in presidential elections, a conventional wisdom monitor as it were.