Paul McLeary is a former CJR staff writer. Since 2008, he has covered the Pentagon for Foreign Policy, Defense News, Breaking Defense, and other outlets. He is currently a defense reporter for Politico.
It began as a ripple, then a rumble, and now it’s beginning to really roll. Who would have thought that a few simple comments by the First Lady about media bias would cause such a stir?
Coverage of the McCain/Lieberman/Kagan proposal for more U.S. troops in Iraq shows, once again, how journalists are often possessed of pretty short memories.