Originally Posted by shakran

Pretty much right on the nose. I agree, the media's dropped the ball bigtime, and I'm a member of the media (unfortunately not slated to cover the whitehouse). But there are signs that at least some in the media are learning their lessons. They've been questioning the administration much harder this year than in any previous Bush year. Naturally the republicans view this as media bias, since any story that doesn't make them out to be gods in the flesh is clearly biased against them, but hopefully this time the head honchos in the media won't listen.


FWIW, they dropped the ball during Clinton's presidency too - and the republicans were happy to help them. Instead of concentrating on that idiotic sex scandal which didn't mean anything as far as how the country was being run, the media should have concentrated on bin Laden's growing animosity toward the US. After all, he bombed the WTC during Clinton's presidency too, not to mention the Cole, and Clinton put his hands over his eyes and hoped the problem would go away. The press should have held him accountable for that and asked him why he wasn't doing squat about terrorism then, but they were too busy getting titilated by presidential liasons.