Wishful Thinking

Hugh's op-ed in today's LATimes is akin to his Weekly Standard column suggesting to Les Moonves what should be done with CBS: Casting pearls before swine.

In the latter, he suggested a radical overhaul that would make CBS closer to Fox than its abbreviated brethren, and now Hugh suggests that the LATimes actually cover the War on Terror:

In short, The Times needs to reorganize to actually cover the war as a war. The last global war was not covered as though the Pacific Theater was independent of the battles in North Africa, or the Russian front disconnected from the D-day invasion. As with that global struggle, so with this one. As it is, unfortunately, readers know less of the terrorist enemy than 1942 readers knew of the geography of North Africa.

Another attack on the United States is inevitable. It will be a test of this paper and big journalism generally if, when the identities of future attackers are discovered, their organizations' intricacies and intentions will have been covered extensively in these pages.

Sorry. I can't see the One Times Square guys finding this ideal particularly interesting, when they've got so much less significant stuff -- you know, the stuff that makes Bush look bad -- to cover.