The media's newfound spine

It's worth clicking through the ad just to read Eric Boehlert in Salon. Amen to this:

It's hard to decide which is more troubling: that it took the national press corps five years to summon up enough courage to report, without apology, that what the Bush administration says and does are often two different things, or that it took the sight of bodies floating facedown in the streets of New Orleans to trigger a change in the press's behavior.