(Posted by John.)
I have family in the (Canadian) media, so I'm always wary of out-and-out condemnations of the news business for allegations of incomepetence, ideologically favoring the right, or many of the other accusations that get thrown around. I admit that family ties aren't the most logically sound reasons for caution, but what can I say.
That said, it seems to me that with the Washington Post's front-page story of GOP patronage in Iraq today, we now have three stories that the mainstream media - two of them from the WaPo, one from the New York Times - that should have been widely known and repeatedly cited during the 2004 election campaign, and were not (to my memory.)
