Media Matters: CIA leak case "dishonor" roll

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Media Matters CIA leak case "dishonor" roll
Media Matters for America has identified numerous instances of conservative misinformation about the CIA leak case, former CIA operative Valerie Plame, former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, and Wilson's mission to Niger. In the wake of the guilty verdict in the trial of former vice presidential chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Media Matters presents a "dishonor" roll of media figures and outlets that have distinguished themselves with their flawed coverage of the case:

Time magazine and former Time magazine correspondent John Dickerson
The Washington Post
Editorial board, editorial page editor Fred Hiatt, and those who echoed the Post editorial page's misinformation
The Washington Post op-ed page and Outlook section editors
Washington Post assistant managing editor Bob Woodward
Headline writers
Media writer Howard Kurtz
Ombudsman Deborah Howell
Columnist Richard Cohen
ABC News senior national correspondent Jake Tapper
The Associated Press
Fox News
Fox News Washington managing editor Brit Hume and his Fox News show, Special Report with Brit Hume
Fox News chief Washington correspondent Jim Angle
Fox News chief political correspondent Carl Cameron
Fox News host John Gibson
Maj. Gen. Paul E. Vallely, former Fox News military analyst
Fox News senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano
Weekly Standard
Executive editor Fred Barnes, during appearances on Fox News
Editor William Kristol, also during appearances on Fox News
MSNBC
Hardball with Chris Matthews
Host Tucker Carlson
CNN
Situation Room host Wolf Blitzer
Senior national correspondent John Roberts
Nationally syndicated columnist Robert D. Novak (bonus)
Nationally syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer, during appearances on Fox News
Vanity Fair columnist Christopher Hitchens
Former Nixon speechwriter Ben Stein
The Washington Times editorial board
Former deputy assistant attorney general Victoria Toensing -- and everyone who gave her a forum
Former Motion Picture Association of America president and Johnson White House aide Jack Valenti.

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