You have to read this to believe it: the NYT's devastating critique CNN's suffused-with-a-tone-of-romantic-awe special, “In the Footsteps of bin Laden”:
[The producers] seem half-seduced by the portrait of the pure-hearted Arab revolutionary that has so captivated parts of the Muslim world. With the heavy rotation of soulful portraits of the soft-voiced prophet of jihad with Super 8-style movies of the warrior on horseback, parts of “In the Footsteps of bin Laden” could almost double as a recruiting video for Al Qaeda..."
