It is not the role of the press to suggest military strategy or to actively undercut the commander in chief. Our job is merely to ask questions, and if the answers are unsatisfactory, it is our responsibility to follow up with more questions. However, in times of strong patriotic fervor, asking a question can be spun as unpatriotic. And the Bush administration, along with its allies in the conservative press, were not hesitant to hang a “bias” sign on those who were seen as confrontational or even skeptical of the story line the administration was putting out.
