SORRY, OUR BAD: The Washington Post still doesn't get it.

WITH ALL DUE respect to the Washington Post 's Howard Kurtz, who was polite to  me when we spoke on the phone earlier this year, I had to laugh at his 3000-word "We Fucked Up on Iraq"  piece that came out last week. Kurtz's Aug. 12 piece, entitled "The Post on WMDs: An Inside Story; Prewar  Articles Questioning Threat Often Didn't Make Front Page," was the latest in what is likely to be  a long series of tepid media mea culpas about pre-war Iraq reporting. The piece comes on the heels  of the New York Times ' infamous "The Bitch Set Us Up" piece from this past May, in which that  paper implicitly blamed hyperambitious hormone-case Judith Miller for its hilarious prewar  failures.The story shouldn't have been, "Are there WMDs?" The story should have  been, "Why are they pulling this stunt? And why now?" That was the real mystery. It still is. We didn't need a named source in the Pentagon to tell us that. And neither did the Washington Post. [more ]

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