While almost all the media grumbled about the secrecy surrounding the Bush administration’s turnover of power in Iraq to Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, leave it to a Fox News executive to maintain proper perspective:
John Stack, Fox’s vice president for newsgathering, said he was not perturbed at the way the ceremony was staged. “All these very smart and shrewd people were taken by surprise,” he said of his colleagues in the media. The fact that U.S. officials “were able to get something accomplished that was a planned event . . . without any violence, it’s a good thing.”
