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I think there is one MSMer, in particular that has lost a lot of credibility - Howard Kurtz.

Kurtz, a center-left fact-checker and writer of things MSM, did a very poor job in covering this story. Perhaps because he also worked for CNN, but also perhaps becuase the media protects its own.

But given the fact that a guy in Kurtz' position failed to cover this story adequately, and did so almost sheepishly, means to me at least, he needs to seek work doing something else.

Call it collateral damage.

given the fact that a guy in Kurtz' position failed to cover this story adequately, and did so almost sheepishly, means to me at least, he needs to seek work doing something else.

Especially since he touts himself as one who "scrutinizes the media's fairness and objectivity."

Here's an interesting article, condemning Kurtz (and the media), which states, in part:

A deafening silence

......Journalists who got their panties twisted over General Mattis apparently see nothing newsworthy about having the head of news for CNN accuse the U.S. military of deliberately killing journalists.
CNN's Eason Jordan told a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland that "he knew of about 12 journalists who had not only been killed by American troops, but had been targeted as a matter of policy," said Rep. Barney Frank (D., Mass.), who was there, and demanded proof, which Mr. Jordan could not supply.
The Davos confab ended Jan. 30. Many journalists were there. Yet in a column published Feb. 5, I became the first "mainstream" journalist to mention Mr. Jordan's remarks.
The silence is puzzling. If what Mr. Jordan said were true, it would be a bigger scandal than Abu Ghraib, about which we in the media have made sure you have heard. And if CNN's top news executive slandered U.S. troops, that also is - or ought to be - news.
Washington Post media analyst Howard Kurtz finally wrote something on Feb. 7. Mr. Kurtz omitted eyewitness testimony from Mr. Frank and Sen. Chris Dodd (D., Conn); reported panel moderator David Gergen as saying something quite different from what he told columnist Michelle Malkin, and skipped over suppression of a videotape of the discussion.
Mr. Kurtz also failed to mention he has a show on CNN. "If a PR agent or damage control spinner produced a piece designed to try and save CNN exec Eason Jordan's job, it would be the piece Kurtz wrote," said web logger and former Democratic political operative Mickey Kaus.
It goes without saying that CNN has yet to report on the controversy. ABC, CBS, and NBC have so far ignored it, too.....