Let me preface this by saying I didn't vote you down (Not the right karma threshold, and I wouldn't bother to do so either). Furthermore, I agree with your sentiment, although I disagree with the premise; that people stopped trusting newspapers over Iraq. Why not over Viet Nam?

That said - partisan, knee-jerk analysis on HN will only lead to HN being another Digg (with people only reading stories that reinforce preconceptions and congregating around certain users).

In the end, if you express an opinion that isn't based on data, and doesn't have anything else about how you reached the opinion, you will probably be modded down by someone.