Your Liberal Media Running Amok

Kevin Drum compares the media coverage received by the Newsweek retraction story(great post on Bottle of Blog, if you haven't read it already, you should. It's better than sex.) to the coverage received by the Downing Street Memo story.

The Newsweek retraction story is on Page 1 of the New York Times, Page 1 of the LA Times, and Page 3 of the Washington Post. That's pretty strong coverage for a story about a newsmagazine retracting a small error in a short piece from two weeks ago.

And how did these same news organs respond three weeks ago to a leaked British memo making it clear that President Bush had already committed himself to war with Iraq by the summer of 2002 and was actively "fixing" intelligence and facts to support that decision? It eventually ran on Page 3 in the LA Times, Page 18 in the Post, and nowhere at all in the New York Times aside from a buried Page 9 piece that treated it as strictly a British election issue.

Yes, we so need to do something about that liberal media running amok.