Washington Post Rethinks Its Coverage of War Debate.

Reports on a newspaper editorial by "Washington Post" executive editor Leonard Downie Jr. in August 2004 admitting that he and other top editors of the paper had erred before the war in Iraq by not giving front-page prominence to more articles that cast doubt on the Bush administration's claims that Saddam Hussein was hiding weapons of mass destruction. Newspaper's focus on analyzing the administration's motives; Assessment of the newspaper's prewar coverage.