The Media's fault

I've mostly refrained from comment, even in my face-to-face life, about Scott McClellan's book, because the only necessary summary was tweeted (twit? twitted?) so wonderfully when the book came out at the end of last month (thanks daringfireball). But the maddening stream of defensive self-congratulation by members of the media can't stand unchallenged.

Well, actually, it hasn't. While I have no truck with Scott McClellan blaming the media for letting the administration start a war about which my views have been clear since before it started, neither should the media be so quick to congratulate themselves for their coverage:

A majority of Democrats in the House voted against the authorization of force... There were also huge antiwar demonstrations, which received stunningly little coverage.

Some of which I helped organize in my admittedly tiny little college town. It's not ultimately the media's fault we invaded Iraq—rarely is the media fully to blame for anything we try to push off on them—but as usual, they bear the responsibility for giving a louder voice to those in power and ignoring all others.