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I, for one, do not trust our media. In fact, I am more likely to rely on BBC for my info, but even then I'm not 100% confident with it. It's sad when a chunk of the country looks to blogs for their news. They should be able to believe what's printed. I also think that the Bush administration controls our media.
I find it ironic that the Bush administration can blast Newsweek for relying on one unreliable source when Bush did the same thing to justify his war in Iraq. (From Thinkprogress.org) McClellan’s issue with the Newsweek story was that it was “based on a single anonymous source who cannot personally substantiate the report.”
Here's a quote from 4/05/04:
QUESTION: Does it concern the President that the primary source for the intelligence on the mobile biological weapons labs was a guy that U.S. intelligence never every interviewed?
MCCLELLAN: Well, again, all these issues will be looked at as part of a broad review by the independent commission that the President appointed… But it’s important that we look at what we learn on the ground and compare that with what we believed prior to going into Iraq.
What was that bible verse about casting the first stone? Or the one about a plank in your eye... No one in this administration should be blaming anyone for making mistakes...
QUESTION: He’s the president of the United States. This thing he told the country on the verge of taking the nation to war has turned out to be, by your own account, not reliable. That’s his fault, isn’t it?
MCCLELLAN: No.
[White House Press Briefing, 7/17/03]
Oh, right. They don't make mistakes.
Yes, the whole Muslim community hates us because of Newsweek... Yeah....
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