Oh, that liberal media:

Conservative bloggers sometimes exaggerate and write that so-and-so "slammed" the troops, and then you follow the link and read the comments in context and find out they're not that bad — usually it's a garden-variety criticism of how the war is being managed or, at worst, a "botched joke".

The late Katharine Graham once described her paper as "Mass With Class". Even with the media infinitely more demassified as a whole than its heyday, the mass of the Post is certainly still there, at least.

But regarding the latter element of Ms. Graham's equation, as John Hinderaker of Power Line writes, "The peril of newspaper blogs is that a reporter might say what he actually thinks before an editor catches up with him and makes him stop".

Meanwhile, Hugh Hewitt adds, "The Washington Post's William Arkin Gets His Reply".