The McClellan Story, cont'd

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Scott McClellan's charge that the national news media neglected their watchdog role in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq has really caught the attention of bloggers and members of the media themselves.

This morning's New York Times has a story wherein Katie Couric—Katie Couric!—avers that

she had felt pressure from government officials and corporate executives to cast the war in a positive light ... Ms. Couric said the lack of skepticism shown by journalists about the Bush administration’s case for war amounted to "one of the most embarrassing chapters in American journalism."

Of course, bloggers of a certain persuasion have been saying this for years: that the so-called mainstream media rolled over on just about every lunacy the Bushies perpetrated on the American public. And while some may opine that the myth of the liberal media is dead, as long as MSNBC, Fox, CNN, et allia, are owned by Republican-voting billionaires and/or multinational corporations, the situation won't change: Republicans will continue to be mollycoddled by both electronic and print media outlets.

Thank goodness for the internets.