Link: http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/05/28/gibson/index.html

I wrote this letter in Salon in response to Gleen Greenwald's evisceration of early media reaction to some of the criticisms of their performance by Scott McClellan in his upcoming memoir. Unsurprisingly, two media figures interviewed on CBS today by Katie Couric seemed to think that the media had (to use an old British expression) done "a bloody good job". Their astonishing apparent lack of self-awareness boggles the mind, and reminds me of the Onion satirical article where Bill Gates of Microsoft awarded himself high marks for dexterity and charisma. One has to assume that the media members in question would prefer to write their own job performance appraisals...
UPDATE - Greenwald has another article here which reveals the extent of the war cheerleading mindset within media company leadership immediately after 9/11. Covered in this article is the case of Ashleigh Banfield, who was demoted and fired after making comments at a conference critical of the media's war cheerleading, and also covered is the firing of Phil Donahue.