So that's why US media failed before Iraq invasion

Terence Smith reports an extraordinary exchange at the Aspen Institute's ideas festival. Five journalists were on a panel when a questioner asked why the media had not demanded better answers from the Bush administration in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq? The journalists evidently squirmed until one said: "Reporters thrive on conflict. The war was going to be a hell of a story." A second reluctantly agreed. "That seemed a scandal to me", writes Smith, before admitting it was probably true. (Via Huffington Post)