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A number of you liked the made-up historic CNN Wolf Blitzer-Bill Schneider piece yesterday. Remember Schneider is an analyst not reporter and his views are valid in journalism. But note how bad military news can be shaded adroitly. Re-read the piece again and notice how Blitzer and Schneider emphasize negatives as they do on Iraq. At the time Blitzer and Schroeder were lamenting lack of progress, Grant was hurtling ahead and rising, preparing to head the Army of the Potomac and then to link up with his friend Bill Sherman. Notice there was nothing inaccurate in their discussion, just the preponderant weight they gave to certain facts and dismissal they gave to others
The War of Northern Aggression decided the future of the United States of America whereas the War on Iraq does nothing of the sort (except for Americans who died or were maimed needlessly and the near $1 trillion price tag).
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Actually, if you read contemporary accounts of the Civil War, it's hard to discern the "shading" in Schneider's essay. Everything put in the reporters' mouths in his essay has its echo in what the newspapers and people were saying about the war and Lincoln. In fact, Lincoln himself did not expect to win reelection given his own understanding of the situation. It was the fall of Atlanta that turned things around.
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