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You know perfectly well what was meant by "Beltway Journalism," and what was meant by the question. If you're carrying two precious antiques and drop one, and are asked why, you don't answer the question by explaining why you didn't drop the other one.

Right now it looks like the government is hyping up a future attack on Iran.

The NIE and the IAEA both say Iran doesn't have nukes, doesn't even have weapons-grade material, yet the USA is doing everything it can to make Americans afraid of a country about a twentieth our size.

So, WHAT is the journalistic community doing to debunk the government's spurious claims that Iran is such an immanent danger to us?

Yesterday the Iranian Foreign Minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, gave a substantial interview. He talked about the possibility of the US or Israel striking Iran. This was reported on the PBS News.

However, according to the NY Times, Mottaki ALSO said Iran was willing to negotiate on their nuclear issues. This was NOT mentioned on the News.

WHY??? It makes it look as if PBS is going along with the hard-liners who want us embroiled in yet another disastrous war!

To paraphrase vastleft's question, is the national media conscious that they might have the opportunity, not to mention the duty to the country and our military, to investigate and defuse yet another hyped-up "threat"?