A knucklehead at Slate writes what appears to be a non-partisan, objective review of Al Jazeera's coverage of the war which is now enshrined on film by an Egyptian director. Objective until the last paragraph that is:

At the Control Room screening I attended, viewers seemed to accept these theories with equanimity, while they invariably moaned loudly every time a U.S. official appeared to be evading a question.

There will always be a certain number of Western news consumers predisposed to believe anything so long as it attributes mysterious and sinister motives to the U.S. government. The problem for the rest of us isn't Al Jazeera or Arab-press-style conspiracy theories appearing in the Western media. Rather, the White House, with its accumulated misstatements and deceptions, has unwittingly collaborated with the enemy's public relations wing. By playing fast and loose with the truth, the Bush administration has created an atmosphere where Al Jazeera's paranoia and conspiracy theories almost seem legitimate.

Nice Lee. This is a review of a film for crying out loud. Control the venom.