Howard Fineman offers his thoughts on why the media is charging so hard after Karl Rove. One reason:
Several media, political and Washington vectors intersected to create an explosive Rove Reaction.
Third thoughts on pre-Iraq reporting
Take my word, there has been a lot of soul searching in the so-called Main Stream Media (MSM) over its performance, or lack of performance, in the months leading up to the American-led ouster of Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq. Specifically, did we replace what should have been professional skepticism with a certain mindless credulousness in assessing the reality of the Bush administration’s claims of imminent danger to the country and the world from Saddam’s supposedly vast stash of weapons of mass destruction, including — only months away, it was said — the nuclear kind?
Actually, yes.
If we failed, was it out of a misplaced sense of patriotic duty, or political cowardice or sheer incompetence — or all three?
I'm going to go with "all three..."
The press corps was spring-loaded with self-doubt over the WMD issue, and ready to snap over any story that would allow it to revisit what now looks to have been a massive — and embarrassingly successful, from the press’ point of view — propaganda campaign. So Rove was a spinner on the WMD front? After him!
Yes, "after him!" And the little fat press guy, too ...! I like seeing David Gregory fight the power instead of sucking up to it. Even that cute Norah O'Donnell will catch on eventually ... the president is not your dorm-mate, Norah ... not even during homecoming week... Hey, next week, can we get Andrea Mitchell to criticize Alan Greenspan? Suddenly I'm loving CSPAN again...
Quote of the week:
"We have secretly replaced the White House press corps with actual reporters..." -- John Stewart on "The Daily Show," July 13, 2005
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