Iranian official urges Iranian reporters to l and tell the truthut the war in Iraq. Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Ahmad Masjed Jamei also decries destruction of cultural sites, pesumably in Iraq.

In the US, on the other hand, we "embed" reporters so officials can more efficiently lie to them in the calculated hope that the public will one day come to absolutely distrust what they read, hear and see on the news and, thus, eventually lose its grip on what is real and what is not.