Charles Osgood: just another media sell-out?

Letter sent to CBS News today:

Charles Osgood's CBS Radio report today on the Iraq situation strikes me as particularly irresponsible: allowing Lindsay Graham to have the last shot and say that we have to "win," and that Iraq is "central to the war on terror." It seems crystal clear that Osgood's obligation as a journalist, faced with such statements, is to at least, in closing, raise the question what Graham means by "win" when the President has been unable to define what that would look like and when he expects it to happen, and to challenge for the listener the claim -- clearly demonstrated by now to be absurd and frightfully dishonest -- that Iraq is "central" to the war on terror.

This kind of failure is the exact reason why people who are natural allies of the media -- liberals, especially the hated liberal bloggers -- have lost so much respect for its major figures. The unwillingness to ask the key questions has made people like Osgood party to the efforts by the administration to fool the American people. That effort has been successful among a large enough segment of gullible Americans to let Bush keep American soldiers getting killed every day. Mr. Osgood and others bear personal responsibility for those deaths, and that responsibility continues to grow every day, at the rate of about three young Americans a day.