Iraq and the Media
The NRO editheads point out that the mainstream media's biased reporting on Iraq may not be only bias, but may in fact be incompetence as well:

Or, to take a slightly less well-known episode, there is the story of Jimmy Massey, an Iraq veteran who joined the antiwar movement upon returning home and told crowds that he had witnessed American troops committing unspeakable atrocities. Dozens of media outlets, including the Associated Press and the Washington Post, published stories on Massey without questioning the validity of his allegations. Finally, Ron Harris of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, who had been embedded with Massey's unit, took his calling as a reporter seriously and investigated Massey's claims — each of which, he concluded, "is either demonstrably false or exaggerated."

That not all reporters are biased, or that some excellent journalism has come from Iraq, we do not deny. But Ron Harris should be the rule, not the exception. Reporters often defend their refusal to give the military the benefit of the doubt by saying that any good reporter is skeptical. But what Rumsfeld noted — and what stories like Harris's reveal — is that, for many in the mainstream press, that skepticism is a one-way street.

- posted by Base10 @ 11:53 AM