Where Their Energy Is

I wish they spent as much effort and coordination on saving lives as they do lying to the press.

Arianna has more and is puzzled that this is still happening in our so-called liberal media:

The unquestioning regurgitation of administration spin through the use of anonymous sources is the fault line of modern American journalism. You’d think that after all we’ve seen -- from the horrific reporting on WMD to Judy Miller and Plamegate (to say nothing of all the endless navel-gazing media panel discussions analyzing the issue) -- these guys would finally get a clue and stop making the Journalism 101 mistake of granting anonymity to administration sources using them to smear their opponents.
The Washington Post corrected its article. Now it should take the next step and reveal who the source of that provably false chunk of slime was. And Newsweek should do the same. It’s time for the media to get back to doing their job and stop being the principal weapon in Team Bush’s damage control arsenal.