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Media Bias: The handling of weapons inspector David Kay's probe has been so shameful he had to write a letter to The Washington Post to set the record straight.
Kay, head of the Iraq Survey Group, is finding that his search for weapons of mass destruction is far easier than his search for fair treatment in the mainstream U.S. media.
That's no surprise. Many in the media have done what they can to undermine the Bush administration's Iraq policy.
From dwelling on the bad news and ignoring progress in Iraq to misunderstanding -- willfully, no doubt, in some cases -- Kay's report, the top media outlets are pushing an agenda at the expense of objective news coverage.
Though Kay takes exception to only one Post story in his eight-paragraph, 586-word letter that appeared in Saturday's edition, he seems astonished at the media's treatment of his work in Iraq since his report was published.
As we mentioned here nearly a month ago, Kay told Fox News' Tony Snow that he was "sort of amazed" that "powerful information" in his report "seems not to have made it to the press."
Having observed for years the way the left-leaning media manipulate the news, we're not amazed. What would amaze us is an honest attempt across all media to report the ...