US - The media owes Karl Rove an apology

Well, finally, someone in the media had the balls to stand upand say what needs to be said. Good for the Washington Post! Your turn New York Times, Newsweek and the rest of the left wing media.

And they point the finger squarely at the guilty parties.

No one behaved well in the whole mess -- not Wilson, not Libby, not special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald and not the reporters involved.

He left out the ones who could have ended the whole affair right from the start - Armitage and Colin Powel.

The Post goes on to call for the media to not sweep this under the rug and examine their behviour in this mess they created.

But caution has been notably lacking in some of the press treatment of this subject -- especially when it comes to Karl Rove. And it behooves us in the media to examine that behavior, not just sweep it under the rug.

After naming some of the individuals and media outlets that were responsible for pushing the non scandal (strangely the Post and the New York Times are left out), he ends with a call for the media to apologise to Rove.

These and other publications owe Karl Rove an apology. And all of journalism needs to relearn the lesson: Can the conspiracy theories and stick to the facts.

Yes they do and on their front pages. In fact, they own President Bush and the American people an apology as well.

Someone asked me the other day, how could the majority of the media get the story so, so badly wrong. I told them, because they
media wanted it to be true so bad they didn't care about the facts.