NY Times vs Iraqi Bloggers

Ali and Mohammed have each spoken in rebuttal to a NY Times article [follow the Google link to avoid registration] about them.

What they have experienced is an elite opinion that they [in this case a "reporter" cocooned in New York City] know more than the people actually on the ground in Iraq. We saw that in John Kerry too when Sistani came to visit the US and Kerry had the audacity to say that Sistani didn't know what was going on in Iraq. Somehow Kerry had a "better picture" while on a campaign bus touring the US than Sistani has by actually living and working in Iraq. No wonder people don't trust Democrats or reporters.