The VP story is really about a lazy press. The Washington Press core is upset because they story was not handed to them on a silver platter.
The truth is that our media is at its most lazy today.
Look at the facts.......
Shuttle Challenger Explosion. Warnings were given, but due to the 'routine' nature of launches, the media was not ready to cover the story.
Bush National Guard. Lazy fact checking led an entire news organization to go with an unsubstantiated story.
Howard Stern. You might be puzzled, but he plays crank calls made during newsworthy events where callers will fake a position within gov't and get on the air at CNN spewing falsehoods and then working Stern's name into the conversation. This is another example of poor fact-checking due to "air-it-now" mentality.
....and many more examples are available......
It was intentionally poor fact checking, driven by partisan hatred of George Bush, which made them want to believe the story was true. So they deliberately looked the other way when the huge gaping holes in their story appeared, arrogantly assuming they could paper them over and get away with it.
That's very different that mere "lazy fact checking."
Thankfully no lives were lost.
It's not a political event to be exploited.
Real Americans know that!
Please add Flush the Koran Newsweak to your "lazy journalist" line up. People need to be continually reminded that NO one was every held accountable or that by our Junk Journalists. That bit of journalistic malpractice has, and will continue, to get Americans killed. Newsweak could NOT of come up with a more damaging propaganda lie to damage US National Interests if they had been working for Al Qeda intentionally. Yet the Junk Journalists have neither apologies nor made restitution for this will lie. Same Same Boston Globe and their front page story about GIs "raping" Iraqi women sourced from a PORN website!