Or, if the Times asked the question and figured out the answer, the paper preferred not to report it. Given that last assumption, I'm pretty sure your first question will be: "How does the murder rate among veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan compare to the murder rate for young American men generally?" Remarkably, this is a question the New York Times did not think to ask. Suppose further that you are not a complete idiot. military's inadequate attention to post-traumatic stress disorder. Suppose you are asked to evaluate whether your paper should run a long article on a nationwide epidemic of murders committed by veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan-a crime wave that, your reporter suggests, constitutes a "cross-country trail of death and heartbreak." Suppose that the reporter who proposes to write the article says it will be a searing indictment of the U.S. Now put yourself in the place of a newspaper editor. John at Powerline found the odor a bit off putting and takes the Times to task for shoddy reporting:
Naturally several bloggers didn’t think this story passed the smell test. Taken together, they paint the patchwork picture of a quiet phenomenon, tracing a cross-country trail of death and heartbreak. Individually, these are stories of local crimes, gut-wrenching postscripts to the war for the military men, their victims and their communities. In a long story ( 9 pages on the web), the Times paints a vivid picture of violence prone vets spreading death and mayhem around the country. Yesterday the NY Times ran a major front page story that catalogued 121 homicides attributed to Iraq and Afghanistan vets after returning home.
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