There are so many stories being written about the tragic assassination of our ambassador in Libya and the sieges of our buildings there, in Egypt and elsewhere (and the so-called “movie” that many media placed at the center of the controversy) that it’s hard to keep up.
And many of the individual stories are fine or difficult to find too much fault with. But there have certainly been problems with the overall direction or message of the coverage, which I hit on a bit yesterday in “Missing the forest for the YouTube video.”
Over at The Atlantic, Robert Wright tackles some of the myths that have dominated the coverage. I thought he put it well:
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