National Journal
William Powers contends the trial is serving a useful purpose for journalists and their audience. "We have a living tableau of a bunch of people who were playing [a high-stakes game] together, against the backdrop of war," he writes. "Nobody comes off especially well: The war was based on bad information and everyone in the news establishment got taken for a ride. And this is part of the story of how it happened. This is Washington, not as some screenwriter or scolding ethicist would have it, but as it really is. Transparency like this doesn't come along very often."||
New York Times: More big-name journalists scheduled to testify next week.
