Shilling for the Enemy

Jack Kelly connects some dots that Howie Kurtz is apparently too---conflicted---to link together regarding media coverage of the War on Terror:

It's also interesting that the terrorists turned to the news media to recover lost momentum. Journalists who fell for these hoaxes may merely be idiots, and their silence about the implications of the hoaxes may simply be the by-product of embarrassment. But more to the point, why are major media so quick to disseminate anything that a terrorist group, or purported terrorist group, releases? For the terrorist, it is like being given millions of dollars in free advertising.

Application of Occam's Razor would suggest a ready answer to me: the media wants the "insurgents" to win and America to lose, just as they did in Vietnam.