Cursor's Media Patrol - 04/11/06

'Murray Waas is Our Woodward Now,' declares Jay Rosen, who also gives kudos to the reporters at Knight Ridder's Washington bureau, including Jonathan Landay. Read an interview with Waas, who's mostly ignored by major papers, and see what a difference a day makes at the New York Times.

Arguing that the 'Situation in Iraq could not be worse,' Patrick Cockburn is "becoming convinced that the country will not survive," as an Iraqi general maintains that U.S. forces 'must stay 3-5 more years.' Plus: "Coalition of the willing" to take another hit?

The credibility of ''The Nuclear Power Beside Iraq' is said to have "almost reached the level of unspoken media premise that the 'Iraq has WMD' canard did a few years ago." Plus: Was Seymour Hersh played? He says no in an interview with NPR.

Before branding Hersh's Iran article "bad reporting," Weekly Standard Editor Bill Kristol "floated a trial balloon," charging that Patrick Fitzgerald "is now out to discredit the Bush administration." More Kristol, and Karen Kwiatkowski, on C-SPAN's "Q&A."

With "Another criminal scandal that reaches the White House," a new poll delivers 'An Election-Year Blow to the GOP,' but Wonkette wonders how "91 percent of voters have managed to divine a difference between Democratic and Republican plans for Iraq." Do the Democrats need a 'Contract'?

"$100 a head" A Phoenix talk show host volunteers on the air to "kill illegal immigrants as they cross the border," as "well over a million" take to the streets, and the editor of the Agribusiness Examiner chronicles "corporate agribusiness's dirty little secret."

A columnist ridicules the Media Research Center for including among the judges of its DisHonor Awards, those who are "primarily propagandists or entertainers who have no real standing as journalists ... Coulter, Limbaugh, Hannity, and Ingraham are entertainers and not very good at it either."