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Finally! It took Clark Hoyt of the brilliant Knight-Ridder D.C. bureau to wake people up to the bullshit conflating of "al Qaedas" that most of the media mindlessly regurgitated. But will these piece be enough to stop the practice if the White House continues to do it? I expect we'll see the inattentive media get careless on this again.
Unfortunately all over the news landscape today, coverage of the biggest story of the day fails to do what as you said, "convey what the government asserts and then, rather than merely leave it at that, subject those claims to critical scrutiny." That's the White House's 18-benchmark progress report.
Most mainstream media I've seen or read have just taken this lying administration's word for it -- AGAIN! How did the report go from a leak a few days ago that said ZERO benchmarks were met, to a whole lot of fudging that arrived at "progress" in eight of 18 benchmarks?
