The inside baseball folks on the progressive side of the media, print, broadcast and 'sphere, know who told the truth and who went along with the game plan in the build-up to the Iraq War, but unless you were paying close attention and looking for alternate versions of reality, or subscribed to one of their newspapers, you didn't know.
The McClatchy folks themselves decided to remind us again this week after taking about as much as they could stand of the media's uniformly defensive response to Scott McClellan's indictment of their reporting in his book.
It's worth a full read, but here's a snippet.
We confess that here at McClatchy, which purchased Knight Ridder two years ago, we do have a dog in this fight. Our team - Joe Galloway, Clark Hoyt, Jon Landay, Renee Schoof, Warren Strobel, John Walcott, Tish Wells and many others - was, with a few exceptions, the only major news media organization that before the war consistently and aggressively challenged the White House's case for war, and its lack of planning for post-war Iraq.
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