Flutterby™! :

I'm sure my usual correspondents will give me the "well, duh" response, but... A good portion of my unease over the NATO involvement in Yugoslavia stems from having no reputable news organization covering the situation. We get rehashed Serb press releases piped out via e-mail, we get NATO press briefings barely edited, but there's no one out there trying to figure out what's really going on, they're just republishing the videotape that other sources are giving them. This has been happening for a long time on the local news level, and maybe it's just that I've only recently become so aware of it, but I don't even remember the assorted Iraq fireworks shows having such a discrepancy between stories.