This will be a tale of two cities: Two Washingtons, two governments, two mass medias, and two political topics that bind them.
Earlier in the month, the whistleblower organization WikiLeaks released the grisly and brutal footage from 2007 of an Apache helicopter gunning down a group of Iraqi men in New Baghdad, including two Reuters employees. The footage also revealed the helicopter firing on a rescue van which had arrived to pick up a wounded man, an attack for which the driver was killed and two children were wounded. The video appeared to show that most (though not all) of the men killed in the attack were unarmed, and none of them were engaging in hostile activity against American troops.