Filed under: international
In its latest issue, Science tackles the outrageous misreporting of the looting of the Baghdad museums. This comes far too late for my taste, but I’m very glad that it got out — and that the looting is discussed by a few different authors in the same iss. I remember reading before the war about the storing away of the major artifacts, and then not being able to find that needle in the haystack of war journalism afterwards [and being roundly ridiculed for suggesting such a thing]…
Few things get my blood boiling like the lack of independence among the various reporters, writers, publishers, academic experts. The current state of world knowledge is miserably narrow, with no obvious path towards improvement [but instead towards similarly narrow, but ever-incremented, knowledge-sets].
If you have a Harvard U. PIN, you can read the Science article online.