'Liberal' media drove past Downing Street

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05172/525377.stm

Graduates of the Cheers for Us School of Journalism (Motto: "Cheers for Us and All the Great Stories We Write!") have been put off their self-congratulatory stroke by the rise of the "Downing Street memo" story on this side of the Atlantic.

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The question of why the media dog didn't bark in the night is what graduates of the Cheers for Us School of Journalism have been attempting to answer. The main reason put forward seems to be that the memo didn't reveal anything new -- that stories at the time made clear that the president was hell-bent on war and everyone knew this.

Except, of course, that they didn't know this. Journalists have this vain belief, quite touching in its naivete, that most people actually read and remember what they write.

In fact, most Americans believe we were attacked by Iraqis on 9/11, something they probably did not read in a newspaper but was implied by that nice Mr. Bush.

[Mythsaje]

1. Newspapers

are slightly more reliable than the TV news, but it's important to read through them carefully. The REAL news is as likely to be buried in the back of the paper as to be spread across the front page.

[leveymg]

2. No, the MSM didn't tell us the intel was "fixed" and that the intel

agencies -- on both sides of the Atlantic -- knew it, at the time, but went along quietly with Bush and Blair until the invasion of Iraq was a fate accompli. That's news. The papers continue to "fix" the facts by pretending to ignore that fact.

Go figure.:shrug:

[RamboLiberal]

5. MSM would tell us a little that there were doubts

but it would either be buried deep in the story, or Judith Miller would be page A1, and the doubt would be buried back on A18.

[NewJeffCT]

3. Is the Post-Gazette Scaife's paper?

I thought he was based out of Pittsburgh?

[RamboLiberal]

4. The PG is the liberal paper in town

Tribune Review is the Scaife paper.