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.

— R.S.K.

Posted to the web on Tuesday, March 06, 2007 at 06:18 PM ET