Dereliction of duty

Scott Sherman analyzes two surveys -- one by Michael Massing in the NYRB, the other by Chris Mooney in CJR -- which appraise the media's performance during the run-up to the Iraq war.

"Together," Sherman contends, "these articles paint a disconcerting portrait of a timid, credulous press corps that, when confronted by an Administration intent on war, sank to new depths of obsequiousness and docility."

But we knew that already, right?