Let's get this one straight, because it matters...

I strongly recommend Cori Dauber at RantingProfs. her specialty is clear-eyed looks at how the press handles the WOT. One thing she has noted recently is the way the press is still working hard to reframe the Administration's case for invasion of Iraq. Here's one example:

HOW DID THE TIMES COVER IT? The main news article, by Rosen and Miller (oddly, although a front page article, its below the Sanger news analysis piece on the web site), buries the news that there was an aggressive missile program, leaves out entirely evidence that there were human test subjects, and buries the news that a scientist was hanging on to live botulinum toxin in his home to confound the inspectors and make sure the program could ramp up fast as soon as the regime shook off the UN. Probably worse, though, is the continued effort of the Times' to just blithely frame the Bush Administration's justification for war as having been an "imminent" threat from Iraq. Look, let's get this one straight, because it matters, and given the results of the Kaye report, now more then ever. Maybe you think the war was justified and maybe you don't, but the argument made was not that the Iraqi regime was an imminent threat. It was that September 11th had forever changed the way we looked at what was an acceptable risk and that from this point forward we could not afford to passively wait to see if they became an imminent threat....