This exchange between CNN's Howard Kurtz on the show Reliable Sources and reporters Robin Wright of the Washington Post and Barbara Starr of CNN is profoundly disturbing on a variety of levels. It calls into question the journalistic ethics of the two reporters as well as their ability to recognize their own bias.Kurtz asks the journalists about the news that civilian casualties in Iraq dropped significantly in August and why that story didn't receive more prominence in the media.The transcript comes to us courtesy of the excellent media site Newsbusters:Kurtz: Robin Wright, should that decline in Iraq casualties have gotten more media attention? Wright: Not necessarily. The fact is we're at the beginning of a trend -- and it's not even sure that it is a trend yet. There is also an enormous dispute over how to count the numbers. There are different kinds of deaths in Iraq. There are combat deaths. There are sectarian deaths. And there are the deaths of criminal -- from...(Read Full Post)