Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Press Corps? (Yet Another Washington Post Edition)

Glenn Greenwald has the normal criticisms of the Washington Post's Jonathan Weisman:

Unclaimed Territory - by Glenn Greenwald: This week's FISA debate -- 2 falsehoods that cannot be responsibly reported: If Jonathan Weisman and the Post like warrantless eavesdropping, they can say so. But there is no excuse for depicting the NSA program as some sort of widely popular program which has the backing of "a majority of Americans" and is opposed only by the Democrats' "liberal base." That is not reporting. That is factually false political propaganda straight from the mouth of Karl Rove and Ken Melhman. The opposite is true -- at best, polls show that Americans are evenly divided, but most polls have shown since the beginning of the NSA scandal that most Americans want aggressive eavesdropping on Al Qaeda but oppose warrantless eavesdropping. Whatever can be done to drum this simple, clear fact into the heads of journalists who write or speak about this story should be done.

Reputation as an objective news source? Stick a fork in it: it's done.