Amok

The free press finds the bullet hole in it’s own foot now as Miss Run Amok is outed for who (and what) she really is and the run-up to war in Iraq the mainstream media fueled (perhaps unwittingly) is being revealed [see Robert Kagan, The Washington Post, October 25, 2005, A21]. A cautionary tale if ever there was one. The question remains, once again, who was watching the store? The biggest danger in the rush for news is the highly contagious frenzy for the scoop. It starts with reporters and before you can say “fact check” it has infected the editors. And then egg becomes a serious zit, as scribes get sucked in by "sources" and their own fantastic projections (and pretensions).