Deep Throat, The Sequel

Seems Howie the Putz didn't go into hiding due to his shame for inviting Armstrong Williams onto his CNN program. Instead he was breaking the story that the Washington Post was whoring for the Administration on Iraq.

Next up: Howie's exclusive that water is a liquid.

Here's the scoop:

An examination of the paper's coverage, and interviews with more than a dozen of the editors and reporters involved, shows that The Post published a number of pieces challenging the White House, but rarely on the front page. Some reporters who were lobbying for greater prominence for stories that questioned the administration's evidence complained to senior editors who, in the view of those reporters, were unenthusiastic about such pieces. The result was coverage that, despite flashes of groundbreaking reporting, in hindsight looks strikingly one-sided at times.

Hindsight, my eye.

And why is Howie silent on Steno Sue's parroting of Administration lies?

Woodward, for his part, said it was risky for journalists to write anything that might look silly if weapons were ultimately found in Iraq. Alluding to the finding of the Sept. 11 commission of a "groupthink" among intelligence officials, Woodward said of the weapons coverage: "I think I was part of the groupthink."

No, Woody, you're just a: Doubleplus ungood hack.

Priest noted, however, that skeptical stories usually triggered hate mail "questioning your patriotism and suggesting that you somehow be delivered into the hands of the terrorists."

Instead, the obstacles ranged from editing difficulties and communication problems to the sheer mass of information the newsroom was trying to digest during the march to war.

Newspapering is hard, and the mean freepers send nasty e-mails!

"People who were opposed to the war from the beginning and have been critical of the media's coverage in the period before the war have this belief that somehow the media should have crusaded against the war," Downie said. "They have the mistaken impression that somehow if the media's coverage had been different, there wouldn't have been a war."

Don't blame us, we're worthless.