A little admission...

From Hot Air
An interesting video...a journalist actually admitting that maybe, just maybe there's a slight slant in the media's coverage of the war and the President. An excerpt:

KURTZ: We now have to listen to them.

Pam Hess, has the sending of 20,000 additional troops gotten a fair hearing in the media or has it gotten caught up in this wrenching, emotional debate about whether the war itself was a mistake?

PAM HESS, UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL: I think it's gotten caught up about it, and the debate about it is actually all wrong. What reporters know and what Martha says is that 20,000 really isn't that big -- isn't that big a jump. We're at 132,000 right now. It's going to put us even less that we had going in going across the line.

What we're not asking is actually the central question. We're getting distracted by the shiny political knife fight

What we need to be asking is, what happens if we lose? And no one will answer that question. If we lose, how are we going to mitigate the consequences of this?

It's so much easier for us to cover this as a political horse race. It's on the cover of "The New York Times" today, what this means for the '08 election. But we're not asking the central national security question, because it seems that if as a reporter you do ask the national security question, all of a sudden you're carrying Bush's water. There are national security questions at stake, and we're ignoring them and the country is getting screwed. (Full transcript available at http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0701/14/rs.01.html

Also:

KURTZ: You were shaking your head when I said overcompensation by the media.

HESS: Yes. I don't think so. It's that we finally have an invigorated opposition.

Now there is finally stuff to write that's against the president. And that's what we do. I mean, we reflect what's going on on the Hill.

But the problem that I think here is that there are two kinds of stories about Iraq. There's the accountability story which we're all obsessed with covering. And the president's even added some fuel to the fire by admitting he made a mistake, although not delineating what those mistakes are. But then there is the success stories.

We're not writing those. We're not asking those hard questions. We're only talking about accountability. And again, it's the country that's paying.

Although I can't agree with everything that's going on here, its mighty interesting to hear an admission. Also interesting to see where she caught herself ("Now there's finally stuff to write against the President. And that's what we do. I mean...") Italics in quotes my emphasis.