I want to note the (brief) surge in factual scrutiny of administration claims in the press during Katrina. In particular, CNN did some excellent work on TV and on their website. See this story and this one for classic examples of vigorous media fact-checking of exactly the sort we asked for in All the President’s Spin. The problem, however, is that the press can only muster brief interludes of skeptical coverage before going back to old “he said,” “she said” habits, as it’s starting to do right now. Still, it’s a start.