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I had a slightly different take on AB's quote here ... we think of 'the war' now as the thing that has been going on for the past 5+ years, whereas at the time, 'the war' was the thing that was going on for 'weeks not months' (ahem) and everything that came afterwards was something else (inside govt and contractor circles, it was always 'phase IV', referring to the doctrine of stability operations, another loaded euphemism).
That changes Brown's meaning, somewhat. If I read that correctly, he wouldn't be saying that journalism's role is merely technical evaluation, but that the technical eval would happen as the event was ongoing, and then the analysis would follow. Among TV journalists, where ADD seems to be the rule, that seems like a consistent view. Which kind of illustrates the problem, no?
