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I would like an honest

On July 4th, 2008 Sarah Hays said:

I would like an honest answer to the original question sent in:

The media all-but-unanimously pronounced Colin Powell’s fact-challenged Feb. 2003 UN presentation “compelling.”
As a direct result, the public supported a disastrous and unnecessary war.
What has changed in Beltway reporting as a result of this deadly fiasco?

Has the Washington Post, the Washington Times, the NPR's Washington Bureau, the New York Times' Washington bureau, or any of the four "major network" news broadcasters -- CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX -- changed any of its policies, procedures, protocols, or editorial agendas as a result of the more than 4900 GI deaths caused by their chorus in favor of a needless, endless, goalless war in Iraq?

Or are those media outlets still so enchanted with the trappings of power and the camaraderie of the politicians they're supposed to be covering that they no longer realize how co-opted they are?

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