Making the rounds today is a Condi Rice at Stanford story that's being reported like it's the equivalent of the sled at the end of Citizen Kane and its dollar-book Freud symbolism. But it's old news--here's a January 2005 Grauniad article with the same story.

Meanwhile, Karl of Protein Wisdom has a well researched history of the legacy media and Iraq. I'd add to it what's probably the first use of the Q-word regarding Iraq from CNN--three weeks before fighting against Saddam began in 2003, as well as my spotlight on Reuters' own particular photographic misadventures in the Middle East.

Which dovetails into Buckhorn Road's post on "The Magic Bullet Theory", as it applies to the wire services that are "reporting" out of the Middle East. While there's no mention of Arlen Specter or Oliver Stone, it's further proof that everything old is indeed new again.