Interesting how the worm turns. In the Abu Ghraib prison scandal,

the MSM — with CBS front and center — argued that it didn’t matter

what the officials involved SAID about what instructions, if any, had

been given by the White House, the Pentagon, or the theater commanders.

It didn’t matter that those officials SAID they gave directions that

torture and the kind of degrading treatment that went on at Abu Ghraib

were prohibited. What mattered, the media insisted, was strictly the

WRITTEN PAPER RECORD: gleaned from internal discussion memos, even

though they were written by subordinates not policy makers, and even

though there was no evidence that those memos were ever implemented as

policy.

Now, CBS has recklessly built a story on a shoddy paper record that

has, predictably, collapsed. Its reaction? The WRITTEN PAPER RECORD is

nigh irrelevant and the only thing that matters is what is being SAID –

the orally related memory of an 86-year-old woman who was not a

decision-maker in the matters at issue and that has been contradicted by

multiple sources who were arguably closer to the decision-maker in question.

What media bias?