I don't know. Other than the "conspiracy theory" crack, I thought this was a pretty sober take from the MSM.
I find Kathleen Parker to be a pretty good writer. Folks often carp about the smallest details, but she writes with common sense, IMHO.
"How can citizens make honest judgments about events — whether the war on terror, the war in Iraq or Israel’s response to Hezbollah — if they can’t rely on news from the front?"
I thought that sentence explained the main thrust of the column. From reading the thread's comments, I doubt most folks read the whole column.