Cheney Speaks!

Many have been wondering why Cheney took so long to report the shooting of his friend on Saturday. For myself, I assumed it was a deserved contempt for the Old media, who has been none too nice to the VP, but I was wrong, according to Cheney:

"...it was important to be accurate. I do think, from what I've experienced over the years here in Washington has been the media outlets have proliferated, speed has become sort of a driving force, lots of times at the expense of accuracy, and I wanted to make sure we got it as accurate as possible."

Media failures in this respect comes to mind, including the report of 10,000 deaths in New Orleans, Bush's National Guard record, the "stetched-thin" Military, and how we are supposed to be losing in Iraq.