I'm starting to truly dislike MSNBC. Thanks to Backspin, I found this headline on MSNBC's website:

Israeli army fires on U.N. convoy - Trucks were delivering humanitarian supplies to Gaza Strip town

That sounds like pure evil to me - no wonder the Israelis are so disliked. Needless to say though, this report (from the Associated Press) only mentions unnamed "witnesses" who saw this happen, while the Israeli army who actually helped co-ordinate the convoy says that it did not happen at all. Doesn't seem to be any doubt in the headline though.

By the way, the humanitarian supplies made it in OK.

Separately, I was flipping channels a few nights ago to see Tom Brokaw reporting from Iraq on an MSNBC news special. He recounts the departure of Paul Bremer from Iraq with the false claim that he snuck out of the country in the middle of night without giving a farewell speech. This same falsehood was reported by the L.A. Times and Washington Post. Is this a coincidence that two major newspapers and a major news network made the same mistake? Both papers have since corrected this erroneous reporting.

Folks, these problems are not "differences of opinion". This is not about whether Israel's security fence is right or wrong, or whether Bush lied or not about WMDs. This is making sh*t up becuase it fits the reporters' views of what they think must be happening in places where they aren't physically present.