The maternity hospital
The BBC has been having a good war so far. Sure, many of the organization's reporters are sceptical about US war aims. But that, on the whole, makes for better journalism. And, frankly, anything is better than the utterly revolting Aaron Brown of CNN or the glib warjunkies of Fox News, none of whom seem capable of conducting a good sceptical interview. I've given up on US cable news, and I'm broadly in favor of this war, so something's wrong.
Nevertheless, the Beeb does get things wrong sometimes. They still have up -- at 5pm EST -- a story about coalition bombing of a maternity hospital, which would be horrific if true. But the British Red Cross says the hospital had been evacuated, and suffered only minor damage from an attack on neighboring buildings. I hope the clarification gets as much play as the initial, appalling reports. Baghdad maternity hospital 'bombed' [BBC]
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