April 11, 2003
WAR: The Big Story: CNN Confesses!
Today's biggest story, clearly, was the colossal bombshell of an admission by CNN exec Eason Jordan that CNN's pre-war coverage from inside Iraq was hopelessly compromised by fear of reprisals by the Iraqi regime. This was certainly widely suspected, but such a blunt admission of the truth is rare. NRO's Corner had a battery of good posts on this; check here, then here, then here, then here (citing Eugene Volokh).
But it's the American media that's biased in favor of us, right?