Update: I'm not sure who wrote this article. The LA Times today has the same article up only says it is written by Robert Scheer. Thanks to the commenter below who pointed this out. I think it sounds like more like Conason, not Scheer.

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Joe Conason has an excellent column today at Working for Change, Embedded Over Her Head in Washington. He begins with Tim Robbins' 2003 play, "Embedded/Live," a filmed version of which is now showing on the Sundance Channel. The play was about how the media was tooled by the Administration into presenting its version of the war.

Conason quickly moves on to Judith Miller and her role as an embedded reporter, filing story after story that turned out to be false.

But what her avowedly principled defense of journalistic sources may turn out to be is a window into the practice of official corruption of journalistic integrity in times of war, which is what "Embedded/Live" so effectively highlights.

Conason wonders how Miller could be duped by the Adminstration for so long.

Raw ambition is one likely culprit, yet Miller's protection of her secret sources begs the question of whether she is ideologically loyal to the neocons who guided her for so long.

On a related note, yesterday Arianna wrote about the New York Times reverting to old habits, using Ahmed Chalabi as a source. [hat tip Patriot Daily.]