The NewsWeak debacle is being covered everywhere by everyone, so I will not try and list all the possible links. Michelle Malkin, as usual, has all the pertinent links and numerous posts – just keep scrolling!

[BTW, I would site the originator of the great moniker “NewsWeak” if I knew who it was – it surely wasn’t me]

The Strata-Sphere’s take on this event is simple. Blinded by their liberal blinders – created because these MSM houses refuse to respect and reflect diversity of opinion in their staff – NewsWeak failed to see how far off they were with the now debunked claim about our brave US Military needing to resort to desecration of the Koran. They failed to see they had no corroberation of the story, they failed to see the administrations response for what they were with regards to determinig whether the story was true, and they sadly failed to see the possible results. They played right into the terrorists PR plans. NewsWeak lied to itself, and people died.

Claudia Rosett at the WSJ had a really good piece that touched on the myopia of the MSM. Ms. Rosett clarifies the MSM’s problems with being obsessed with the minutia of US politics, and not doing us and the world a service by using their vast resources to explain ALL aspects of the complex and dangerous dynamics now in play.

Austin Bay fills in more on the cause of MSM’s short sightedness by reminding us how the MSM has been obssessed in reliving the days of Vietnam and Watergate – their so called glory days.

The MSM better wake up and open their eyes. We need a media that has checks and balances INTERNALLY to make sure biased assumptions and jumping to conclusions like NewsWeak did cannot happen, and will never cause the pain and suffering we have now witnessed. We need a media that gets off its lazy backsides and gets back into the world to explain the ENTIRE picture – not one that fits their politics or makes them feel better. And we need to retire the Old Media Guard that is looking backwards to the days when they did rule the information highway, and get new people (with a full diversity of views) who want a media that stands for something good.