'We are at war' - really!

I can be forgiven for not noticing, since I get my early morning news from the New York Times online, but it seems that yesterday Mr Obama actually said this, according to CBS: 'We are at war.... We are at war against al Qaeda, a far-reaching network of violence and hatred that attacked us on 9/11, that killed nearly 3,000 innocent people, and that is plotting to strike us again. And we will do whatever it takes to defeat them.'

This, by contrast, is the headline on the NYT story: 'Obama Details New Policies in Response to Terror Threat'. Ho hum, right? Right: I didn't read it either.

Talking about burying the lead (or lede, as journos like to spell it)! Not until the fourth paragraph does the Gray Lady quote the president's first phrase, and that bit about 'far-reaching network of violence and hatred' appears nowhere in the story. All the news that's fit to print.... Blue skies! -- Dan Ford