Americans planting positive stories in Iraqi newspapers

I was watching the News Hour tonight and they had two pundits arguing over whether it was ethical to plant true, positive stories in Iraq to counter the tragic and negative stories usually printed in Iraqi newspapers. The con argument was made by a professor of journalism. He was going on and on about morals and principles and the pure and wonderful media, that he feels should be allowed to monopolize print and broadcast unchallenged. I was waiting for the pro guy to call this left wing idiot on the fact that the media is a swirling cesspool of filth and degradation, peopled by immoral scum who would violate anybody's rights to privacy to get a salacious story. The media are paid to seek out the most vile and non representative stories. There has been scandal after scandal in the major newstations and newspapers. Right now they are resavaging the woman in France who had her face ripped off by her dog. We get to hear personal details that should not be part of any story about a revolutionary facial transplant. It chaps my thighs when the left starts to claim high moral principles to argue for something that they supposedly believe in. They are willing to trample on the principles of others and claim moral relativism when it suits their purposes. They are, by their very nature, without principles or morals. I call major bullshit on them.