The strategy adopted by Saddam Hussein for his trial on crimes against humanity that stem from his decades-long tyranny over Iraq has always been clear — he planned on diverting attention from the crimes and the evidence and focus the world on his political rants from the dock. He’s playing out the Goering strategy, unmindful of Goering’s failure with it. Unfortunately for us, the media has played into Saddam’s strategy, according to a study performed by the Media Research Center. After reviewing the coverage provided by the three American broadcast networks, MRC calculated that less than twenty percent of the news coverage reported on evidence, testimony, and the case background … when they could be bothered to cover the trial at all.
Imagine what things would be like if the news media actually sided with civilization.