The negative reporting of the Iraq war isn't helping the cause of the MSM. How many mothers, wives, and lovers are seeing news in the media that's not matching up to what their soldier's are seeing first-hand?
If the Iraqi war has done anything it's hastened the end of the hold on "reliable" news that once was the domain of the MSM.
We are fighting the War On Terror and the War on Error. Many "reputable" news sources have shown themselves to be completely untrustworthy MANUFACTURING news hoaxes.
Such was the thing of publicity stunts over 100 years ago (to sell more papers). Now they do it to seize office.
They belong in the dustbin of history now with an asterisk by the past 50 years of their publication.