Saddam Coverage

We caught Saddam today. He was hiding in a hole near a farm, a literal hole, and I've read alternately that he had a pistol or a couple of AK-47s down there with him. The news coverage today seems to be too focused today on one part of the story, though: that Saddam went down without a fight. I heard Dan Rather call him a "coward", I heard that part of the story repeatedly stressed on CNN and ABC. Maybe I watched too much news today, but I couldn't help but think that that spin on the capture made all of our "independent" news outlets seem like PR fronts for the government. Your leader cared more for his skin than for your cause, they seemed to be telling the Middle East. He wasn't even a good enough Moslem to welcome his own martyrdom, so relax with the insurgencies and give us a chance. I realize that Saddam's lack of resistance was one of the sole "known" facts of the story in its initial few hours, but I can't get away from the fact that it was overstressed. A much more fascinating story is the face-to-face between Saddam and Iraqis on the governing council, but that received oodles less coverage. More fascinating to speculate about was the intelligence that got us to Saddam's little hole; but no, descriptions of his cowardice, something difficult at best to judge from such distance, dominated the day.