Glenn Reynolds is leading a blog today about media bias on his site. But for a disgusting little piece about how the main stream media actually brag about how they hide out in cushy hotels, talk with each other, and then do "news", nothing is as low as the LA Times in a report on Friday 9/19 in their Calendar Section (That's their movie and TV plus gossip section). This gushy piece called "Letter from Baghdad by some media suckup named Carol T. Williams; subtitled

"Fear and Reporting"; "Threats abound for journalists living at the Al Hamra. But camaraderie and comforts keep them put."

and then it starts explaining how these phonies report and their "concerns". A few paragraphs to make you puke

We were told to let our Iraqi drivers start the cars before we get into them, to travel with doors locked and windows up, to change lanes while driving below an overpass so no one could drop a grenade on us and to refrain from doing any sightseeing or unessential travel. We were also encouraged to let our cars get really dirty so anyone who places a bomb underneath would leave a handprint.

For most journalists, that's too much information.

Those who have covered conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, Chechnya, Somalia, Afghanistan or the West Bank are familiar with a laundry list of potential perils, which, if strictly avoided, would prevent us from doing our jobs.

When Los Angeles Times editors encouraged the three reporters ensconced at the Hamra to relocate, we had identical reactions: Why?

"The only thing that works around here is the Hamra," Patrick McDonnell said as he finished his chicken fingers. "I don't want to go hide out in some little hotel no one knows about."

Can you imagine these bastards? Then it is told how these stinking bums demanded the hotel protect them, all this while drunk:

"We told the hotel management they had to get their security act together or we were moving out," Josh Hammer, from Newsweek, says of the ultimatum some journalists gave Hamra's managers after the Aug. 19 U.N. bombing.

The managers responded by calling in U.S. troops for a security review and laying the two concrete beams at the entrance. In an apparently unrelated move, they repainted the beige exterior red and white, making it all the more eye-catching on the monochromatic horizon

So these bums spend our money making our soldiers protect them inside the most luxurious hotel they can find. They also wanted to stay someplace with both security and a pool. Read the whole thing. Then you'll know EXACTLY why these liars lie.