When the editor includes a defence of US news media the editorial is naïve. You only have to look at the reporting of Zimmerman/Martin to find major distortions of facts. CNN kept flogging the racial angle and MSNBC even doctored the 911 tape to play the race card. CNN was claiming that Zimmerman was never injured and never retracted or apologized when the injuries were shown. None of them cared that the 911 tape showed that there was no racial bias and none of them cared that the hotly debated stand your ground law was never at issue.

The media also ignored facts surrounding the withdrawal of troops from Iraq. For years Obama was given credit for bringing the troops home when in fact the withdrawal was negotiated by Bush and approved by the Iraqi parliament before Obama took office. When the complete withdrawal proved to be a mistake and was a political issue in the US not one media outlet admitted to an error in their facts.