They never mentioned any of that "supporting evidence" in J-school

Old Media bias in action.

Here’s the headline:

Fear of informants has stoked climate of fear in Baghdad

At least the headline writer wasn’t completely off the mark, as the lead sentence of the article is

Fear of informants turning in neighbors to police or militia groups has deeply undermined community trust in many parts of Baghdad.

From this you would naturally think the people were supporting the Caliphascists and didn’t want to be turned in to the police. Because that’s what they feared.

Well, no:

Ahmed Ali, a 34-year-old barber in the ethnically mixed and violent Baghdad neighborhood of Dora, walked away from his business last month because he worried that his chitchat with customers would lead neighbors to suspect that he was informing on them to police - or militias, or whoever - and that he’d be marked for a retaliatory killing.

So, in fact, the people are afraid of being killed, not of being turned in to the police. Nobody is actually afraid of informants or being turned in to the police. They are afraid of some one thinking they had done so and being killed for it. A subtle and apparenty irrelevant distinction to Nancy Youssef, the writer listed in the by-line (this being Knight Ridder, who knows who really wrote this, Youssef, some editor, or some other random person).

I guess it is really just too much to ask for Old Media to even sum up their own stories unbiased.