Media Blog reader Chris K. writes in to point out David Ignatius’s latest column over at The Washington Post:

A strong warning about the rise in sectarian violence came from my Post colleague Ellen Knickmeyer. She reported in February, after a revered Shiite mosque in Samarra was destroyed, that Shiite militiamen were brutally killing Sunnis. Her sources said Iraqi and international officials tallied more than a thousand bodies. Her reports were criticized by U.S. officials in the Green Zone, who said the number was far smaller. The dispute obscured the deeper truth that Knickmeyer was reporting: the sharp increase in brutal killings by Shiite death squads.

In fact, she missed the mark by, oh, say, 900 dead bodies. Right. So, the implications are more important than the actual reports? And what was more important was not whether the CBS Memos were real, but whether what they alleged was real?