Paul McLeary is a former CJR staff writer. Since 2008, he has covered the Pentagon for Foreign Policy, Defense News, Breaking Defense, and other outlets. He is currently a defense reporter for Politico.
Newspapers usually offer three different views of an important story: straight reporting, analysis, and opinion. One of these often seems the odd man out.
CNN didn’t air a recruiting film for the insurgency. It merely brought home a disturbing reality of the war in Iraq that many of our nation’s enemies are already well aware of.
No single story line has dominated campaign coverage this season. But recently, we’ve seen a shift toward highly flattering portraits of the Democrats’ main players.