It looks like the big networks might mark the upcoming 9/11 anniversary with some criticism of Bush’s half-assed job on homeland security :

One month before the second anniversary of the Sept. 11 tragedy, the broadcast networks seem set to change the tone of their coverage of that event from focusing on the event itself and the memorials to looking more at policy issues in the aftermath of the attacks.
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“In the first year after that unspeakable tragedy, there was a need for the nation to come together,” ABC News vp Jeffrey Schneider said. “For the second-year anniversary, we’ve obviously taking a very serious look at a host of security issues facing the country, and we’re doing that for five days.”
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ABC is brandishing its plans to spend five days that week on a series of reports across most of its news vehicles — on television, radio and the Internet — that will examine, in effect, if the war on terrorism is working. All of ABC News’ shows will ask aggressive questions about al-Qaida, Osama bin Laden and whether the $20 billion spent on security was worth it.
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“It’s been swinging like a pendulum back and forth,” she said. “The press, they questioned authority a little bit less than they normally would after 9/11. The mood of the country was such, it was a very different time. The mood of the country was very much 100% rally around the president, and I think the media probably wasn’t as tough as they normally are.”

But in the past few months, she said, “It went the other way after the war was over. There were no weapons of mass destruction and no connection between al-Qaida and (Saddam) Hussein.”

Of course, if the media had been doing their jobs for the last two years, a lot of the crap that has happened since 9/11 probably wouldn’t have happened. If they were as concerned about Enron as they were about Laci Peterson, more people would realize what corporate whores the Bush Administration are. If they had treated the shaky intelligence that was being used to justify the war in Iraq last fall and winter with half the fervor they reserve for missing blonde girls, then we probably wouldn’t have soldiers dying in Iraq on a daily basis. It’s nice to see that they’re finally waking up and realizing that by not living up to their pledge to keep viewers informed, they’ve essentially been filling the airwaves with misinformation, but it all seems like “too little, too late” at this point.