War on Drugs

CNN’s Lou Dobbs is out to revitalize the war on drugs, claiming in a recent commentary that we’ve “been in retreat” for three decades, and promising ongoing coverage of “a war that is inflicting even greater casualties than the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan” on his show in the following week. Drug reporting often brings out the worst in the media – partial reporting, dodgy, context-free statistics, and moral posturing. So how did the “Dobberman” do?

http://www.stats.org/stories/2007/lou_dobbs_drugs_mar02_07.htm