Demonizing the Iraqi police/national guard the next media fad?

I saw this little story in the New York Times about Iraqi police opening fire on protestors, and I had a flashback to when every error by US troops, and even some non-errors, led to the media demonizing the troops. This story is more or less a dispatch of all that is going on in Iraq right now; The Times leads with the shooting and headlines the story with "Iraqi Guards Fire on a Groop of Protesting Workers," even though that is only two paragraphs of the entire story. Additionally, they offer no facts on the circumstances of the shooting. Given that these workers had come "to collect their wages and ammunition," it is entirely possible that they opened fire at the Iraqi Guards first. A headline scanner would never know that. All they are left with is the perception that Iraqi guards did something bad, and we don't really know that, given the few details in the story.