'NYT': Katie Couric, Others (Finally) Admit They Flubbed War Coverage

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By: E&P Staff In an article on Friday, The New York Times explores the new mea culpas by leading TV anchors and some reporters in the wake of the revelations in the new Scott McClellan book.

Katie Couric and others now admit that they performed poorly in the runup to the Iraq war and that in some cases pressure was brought on them to slant coverage.

E&P Editor Greg Mitchell is quoted in the story, charging that the media did very little self-assessment on the recent fifth anniversary of the start o the war. His new book is on these issues, "So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits -- and the President -- Failed on Iraq."

Read the Times article here.

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