First of all, if you take the case of media--because as you know, I have more than an occasional contact there--the old rule of thumb was that if it bleeds it leads, and that determines, of course, the stories that go on the screen, and the quiet stories don't get on the screen. I have also observed over the years that the media attention span has shortened. When I was doing a talk-back during the first Persian Gulf war with Lloyd and CTV, we would be having perhaps two minutes and forty seconds in one of those. By the time of the second Persian Gulf war, we were down to one minute and twenty seconds, and as a consequence you are then looking at very fast glimpses, very shallow glimpses of what is going on.
So in that sense, the media is doing the things that the media will do, because that's the way the media operates. In terms of who should be responsible for getting things out, I would strongly encourage the defence department and the Government of Canada to continue their program of explaining over and over again to Canadians what is going on.