sisyphusshrugged | the Washington Post piles up pillows and takes the fall

Howie Kurtz critiques Washington Post coverage of the runup to the war:

Bush, Vice President Cheney and other administration officials had no problem commanding prime real estate in the paper, even when their warnings were repetitive. "We are inevitably the mouthpiece for whatever administration is in power," DeYoung said. "If the president stands up and says something, we report what the president said." And if contrary arguments are put "in the eighth paragraph, where they're not on the front page, a lot of people don't read that far."

Inevitable. Like the sunrise. Except for that eight years four years or so ago.