From Think Progress
By Judd

The White House narrative about Iraq, parroted by conservatives everywhere, is that the media has failed to report the good news. Bush has faulted the media for ignoring the quiet, steady progress in Iraq. Just last week, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld recently blasted the media for exaggerating Iraq’s security problems.

Today, Ralph Peters, an author, wrote an piece for conservative website Real Clear Politics that began During a recent visit to Baghdad, I saw an enormous failure. On the part of our media. It was linked enthusiastically by right-wing bloggers.

The American people, however, aren’t buying it. A new CBS poll shows that about 60% of Americans believe that the media is reporting things in Iraq either accurately or better than they really are:

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