It's unforgivable that both The New York Times and the Washington Post persist in misreporting the key Iraq oil law benchmark. These two leading print news sources, with the resources to have full-time reporters throughout Iraq and in Washington, continue to superficially describe the oil law benchmark as a law 'ensuring the equitable distribution of energy resources' (the New York Times today) (see pop-up chart, Iraqi Progress on Benchmarks) and "a law governing the distribution of oil revenue, an area of deep division among Iraqi factions" (The Washington Post today)
These descriptions are misleading and give us no indication as to why . . .
