posted 20 years ago
Yet another model of journalistic excellence from the highly regarded rediff. :roll:
If the point was to convey factual information and not merely show their politics (if you want a real hoot read the user comments on any one of their hundreds of articles about the US), then they may have tried to inject some facts into the article.
For instance, exactly which team are they talking about? There are many teams over their looking for WMDs and more are being sent according to news reports. Why is this team noteworthy? How long were they searching for WMDs? How many big was this etam? Where were they looking (were their searches limited to some particular domain of targets)? What info did they use to determine where to look (ie were they only looking at facilities that had been declared by the Iraqis as it had been reported some teams are)? What type of WMDs were they looking for?
Of course the bias in the language comes out as well. What is the point of the article? What was newsworthy? That a particular team of inspectors may not have been able to find WMDs in two weeks or whatever in a country the size of California seems neither surprising or noteworthy to me.
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