Cursor's Media Patrol - 10/07/05

Left I on the News notes that "Bush gave us 16 more words," and Juan Cole writes that "Bush's attempt to conflate the regimes he doesn't like with al-Qaeda makes nonsense of his whole vision," and "as for the rest of your speech, it is all made up as you go along, just like your whole administration."

Craig Crawford writes that "a news media outlet was persuaded to join a conspiracy of silence until the government was ready to announce the news ... which happened to coincide with White House strategy for Bush's speech and also just so happened to serve as a neat distraction from Rove's latest bad news."

'The Other Hurricane' Mike Davis writes that after Katrina, "walking among the ruins of the Lower Ninth Ward, I found myself worrying more about [an] EOS article than the disaster surrounding me."

Salon reports that President Bush's reelection may have been made possible by a Toledo Blade reporter with close ties to the Republican Party, who is said to have sat on the story of potential campaign violations by the central figure in "Coingate," Tom Noe.