Does the media really get fooled?

Elite media outlets, like the New York Times and cousins, pick up stories from Pentagon sources and publish them without bothering to check facts. So goes a story by Dan Froomkin in the neimanwatchdog. Mr Froomkin is refering to assertions that most Guantanamo detainees rejoin the Jihad, while the facts definitely lead in the opposite direction. Is that news???? The Fourth Estate were as guilty of the Iraq fiasco as the Bush administration: from the non existing Al Qaeda-Saddam Hussein link to the weapons of mass destruction. The extent of their coverup is still to be documented: at the time the Bush administration officials were saying the invasion was not certain, top reporters from every news outlet were lining up to train with the trooops. Embedded reporter came into the lexicon. Why does that surprise Mr Froomkin? Dog bites man is not news. The news is "Man bites dog"