Cohen, however, doubted that Obama is up to the challenge. [For more on Cohen, see Consortiumnews.com's "Is WP's Cohen Dumbest Columnist?"]
Similar anti-Obama themes were struck by conservative columnist George F. Will [ "An Olympic Ego Trip, Oct. 6] and by neocon thinker David Ignatius [ "Testing Obama's Doctrine, Oct. 8].
This contempt for Obama spilled over into the Post's commentary about health-care reform, too. Economic writer Robert J. Samuelson weighed in with a column entitled "The Health-Care Ego Trip, which disputed the need for major reform and the motives of the reformers.
Samuelson suggested reformers were hyping the problem for egotistical reasons and quibbled with the methodology of a recent study that estimated that lack of health insurance contributed to 45,000 U.S. deaths a year.
While much attention has been focused on recent fabrications from Fox News personalities and other right-wing media voices, the Washington Post, CNBC and similar outlets of elite opinion may represent a greater threat to an informed national debate and to responsible decision-making.
The lack of any meaningful accountability for the U.S. news media's failures on Iraq and " more generally " regarding the fawning press coverage of the Bush administration's early years has left the country vulnerable once again to misguided analyses based on false information from the same sources.
By refusing to correct a long litany of errors " and to purge the incompetent journalists responsible " the Washington Post and other prestige news outlets are again herding Americans toward the slaughterhouse of unnecessary war and status-quo economics.
Those policies may be just fine for Washington Post executives and other members of the elites, but they are clear and present dangers to nearly everybody else.
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