Watching the Media

MediaGuardian.co.uk has an interesting article on some of the reports that have come out of the war and were later found to either be untrue or at least questionable.  It covers stories about the 2 columns of tanks - each with 1,000 vehicles, that were said to be coming out of Baghdad, as well as the tank column of 120 tanks that was said to have been coming out of Basra, the discovery of the alleged chemical weapons plant, the taking of Umm Qasr, the executions of 2 British soldier POWs by the Iraqi army, and the popular uprising in Basra.

One comment really caught my eye, though:

On Monday, much of the British press treated the discovery with some caution. Part of the scepticism stemmed from the fact that one of the board members of the Jerusalem Post is Richard Perle, the Bush defence adviser and most vocal backer of the invasion of Iraq.

Definately qualifies as one of those "things that make you go Hmmmm....." While there's no proof at this time that Perle had anything at all to do with the story - it certainly is an interesting coincidence.