Rich, creamy Watergate

What started out among liberals as an anger over how the build up to the Iraq war was covered has turned into a large scale, extremely specific and, I think, quite right attack on mainstream media for its complacency in covering the Bush administration. And Frank Rich is one of the best we've got.

THE journalists who do note the resonances of now with then rarely get to connect those dots on the news media's center stage of television. You are more likely to hear instead of how Watergate inspired too much "gotcha" journalism. That's a rather absurd premise given that no "gotcha" journalist got the goods on the biggest story of our time: the false intimations of incipient mushroom clouds peddled by American officials to sell a war that now threatens to match the unpopularity and marathon length of Vietnam.