The Media Quagmire

Good article by Scott Johnson in the Daily Standard about the biased media coverage of the Iraq War. The money quote:

As Paul Weaver wrote in 1977 in his review of Big Story [Peter Braestrup's book subtitled "How the American Press and Television Reported and Interpreted the Crisis of Tet 1968 in Vietnam and Washington"]: "A politicized press speaking the language of news is an instrument of propaganda, and such an institution does not foster democracy, but erodes it."