To raise new questions new possibilities to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
Reality is merely an illusion albeit a very persistent one.
Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.
There's a lot of peer pressure to not do positive stories out of Iraq... I think there's a sense that the administration got a pass during the hot days of war and now that the war is over it's time to even out the deck somewhat.