What’s the deal with Juan Cole? He wanted the war in Libya he got. I guess in the end, Cole just wanted a whole lot more war.

Nic Robertson launches a direct, and personal attack on Fox News, and its correespondent in Libya, after Fox alleges CNN and other western media were used as “human shields” to protect Moammar Gaddafi’s compound in Tripoli. A fact check.

My modest proposal: major news organizations should resolve to stop repeating what others are reporting, unless and until they have some idea if it’s actually true. That small return to the tried and true standards or yore, which requires nothing but discipline to implement, would go a long way toward slowing the spread of misinformation in times of breaking news.

Yet the network that had shown such caution in discussing the Ft. Hood shootings openly discussed the possibility that Loughner was inspired to violence by…Sarah Palin. Although there is no evidence that Loughner was in any way influenced by Palin, CNN was filled with speculation about the former Alaska governor.

CNN says it loves Kathleen Parker, and the low-rated show is still a “work in progress.” In TV they love you right up until the point they don’t love you anymore. So watch for Kathleen Parker to be jettisoned sometime next year. And then, as a friend of mine suggested, CNN can rename the show “Spitz Take.”

Jon Stewart didn’t mock Sanchez because he was a Cuban-American. He mocked Sanchez because he did so many mockable things on the air. When you combine Sanchez’s ad-lib style ‚which lead him to make a lot of humorous slips-ups on the air, with his penchant for over-the-top theatrics, he was simply a motherload of comedy material. He was the “Jon Stewart full-employment policy.”

In fact, the typical firing in the new biz these days has all the earmarks of a mafia hit, because — as I’m fond of saying — “In TV news, they love you right up until the point they don’t love you any more.”

After days of negative publicity for appearing to dump war correspondent Michael Ware, who says he is suffering from PTSD, CNN tells the New York Times, there may have been a misunderstanding.

I knew Margaret Moth only by reputation. My old boss, former CNN CEO Tom Johnson shared the remarks he plans to make about her with a few former CNN colleagues via email, and I though I would share them with you.

Marc Thiessen has written a provocative new book that is provocative only in the sense that it requires critics of the Bush Administration’s intelligence gathering methods to examine the generally accepted premise that many of the “enhanced interrogation techniques” were tantamount to torture.