NPR's Steve Inskeep and Juan Williams discussed Republican opposition to Obama's health care initiative this morning. After repeating Democrat talking points on health care, Juan Williams repeated Republican talking poins on health care. At this point (around the 3 minute mark) we get the following exchange:

Steve Inskeep: Just about everything that you have quoted Republicans as saying is of course being disputed by the Democrats as being distorted, or overblown, or just plain wrong. But of course we're talking about the politics here and how things work...

Juan Williams: [with a laugh] Right.

And then they move on to a clip of Kathleen Sebelius discussing the administration's difficulties selling the "public option" because so few people understand what it means while misiniformation is abundant. So it's a good thing that NPR rose above the fray by...regurgitating conflicting points of view filled with misinformation in their coverage of the issue without any discussion of the merits of the policy...while joking about how they're not covering the merits of the policy.

On a similar note,  journalist memoirs provide more insight (via atrios) into how the media consensus around war in Iraq coagulated:

"My initial support for the war," he writes "was symptomatic of unfortunate tendencies within the foreign policy community, namely the disposition and incentives to support wars to retain political and professional credibility."