Cursor's Media Patrol - 06/21/06

As Maureen Dowd warns that "big ideas can backfire," The BAG observes that "a large cross section of the MSM swallowed last week's administration propaganda and is now using it as 'lining paper' to neatly package the story of these murders."

The Booman Tribune fact-checks Rush Limbaugh's claim that "the cut and run liberals" are "happy these two soldiers got tortured," as "the 'leftist' version of Ann Coulter" provokes 'Selective Media Moral Outrage.'

Tom Engelhardt discusses how best to read 'The Imperial Press,' among whom the WSWS finds "remarkable unanimity" as 'Washington escalates slaughter in Iraq.'

As it's reported that the U.S. Army Reserve faces an "involuntary call-up" crunch, former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage offered a "gloomy assessment of the situation" in Iraq and Afghanistan in an Australian interview.

Although "The One Percent Doctrine" is being hailed as "the next 'must read' book," with revelations that "might be spot on," Eric Umansky finds himself 'Doubting Suskind.'

Intelligence experts tell Salon that a "secret, highly secure room" maintained by AT&T in St. Louis since 2002 "bears the earmarks of a National Security Agency operation" for "spying on U.S. Internet traffic." Plus: "Quicker and Easier Than Subpoenas."