Yes, actually, but more by this post than by the links you're sharing, as I'd seen both of them when I checked BBC.

I'm surprised to find someone whose intelligence I regard very highly making such sweepingly general assumptions about the "Americans on your flist" and what supposedly goes on under our noses. Yeah, our mainstream media ignores a lot of stories, negative ones about the war in Iraq being a huge number of them. However, many of us are very aware of that and do what we can to read alternative news sources, such as BBC, or to spread stories that shouldn't be ignored when we come across them, like people have been doing with the Aaron Hall story.

I just don't think it's necessary to make that kind of assumption about your flist in order to share things that may or may not have been overlooked.