American journalist discovers Iraq is 'a mess'

We may not be too surprised in Britain by claims that Iraq is "an absolute mess", but that's regarded in the States as a significant story. It was the view expressed by the CNN reporter John Roberts in a TV interview yesterday with the Washington Post's media commentator Howard Kurtz. Here are key quotes from Roberts: "The place is a mess. It's an absolute mess. There is nowhere you can go in the Baghdad area as a Western journalist without an escort, where you could feel safe from being kidnapped, shot at, whatever... Television can't, and even print can't, fully capture the scope of what's going on in Iraq." Well, I think Britain's journalists have conveyed it. Why have their American counterparts failed to do so? (Via Editor & Publisher)