I'll give you the second one.

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Tom Brosz — 4/28/2005 8:55:26 PM (archived)

The first one is typical in that it announces what looks like progress, then spends most of the story talking about what will go wrong and how much violence there still is.

The dreaded "but-monkey," using Laura Inghram's definition, not mine.

Of the examples you give from the "Good News" post, there's like one, or maybe two of each compared to dozens from other sources. I saw two from the BBC, which I think is some kind of record.

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50% of Americans Now Say Bush Deliberately Misled Them on WMDs - Eric - 4/28/2005 1:32:14 AM
- re: 50% of Americans Now Say Bush Deliberately Misled Them on WMDs - Doug Ellison - 4/28/2005 9:27:56 AM
  - Head of CIA gone (n/t) - p - 4/28/2005 8:07:33 PM
    - Tenet should have been gone two minutes after Bush's first inauguration. - Tom Brosz - 4/28/2005 8:57:31 PM
    - Gone with a nice shiny medal = fired? (n/t) - Tony - 4/28/2005 8:17:58 PM
      - Sandy Berger standard - p - 4/28/2005 8:34:30 PM
- The details - Tom Brosz - 4/28/2005 4:08:46 AM
  - "the only good news you ever see on Iraq are the Chrenkoff items I post" - Tony - 4/28/2005 2:12:28 PM
    - Sure. Show me a link from the NYT. - Tom Brosz - 4/28/2005 5:50:12 PM
      - I will concede that they reported on the elections. - Tom Brosz - 4/28/2005 5:51:07 PM
        
        I call Bullshit - Tony - 4/28/2005 6:11:33 PM
        
        Another "true believer" - Lindy - 4/30/2005 4:15:10 AM
        
        I'll give you the second one. - Tom Brosz - 4/28/2005 8:55:26 PM
  - Oh, so now it's not the lies, it's the "incessant battering by the press". - Bowser - 4/28/2005 5:41:57 AM
- 50% of Americans Are Dumber Than The Other Half (n/t) - Mark Eby - 4/28/2005 2:07:08 AM
  - Indeed! :-) - Davin L. - 4/28/2005 2:48:58 AM

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