can we sue the media?

Since the media misrepresents the facts about this awful administration, aren't they liable for the war, for the deaths? This is a nice opinion:

American press should have done its job

When I read the words "It's alarming to learn the extent to which the Bush administration seemed willing to go..." (Feb. 14 editorial opinion) I became a little nauseated. Your editorial has the tone of a 7-year-old who's just been told there is no Santa Claus. If our supposedly free and independent press had been doing its job four, five, six years ago, we wouldn't be in this mess.

Cheney, Rumsfeld, Pearl, Wolfowitz, Libby; these were all names well associated with the concept that the ends justify the means. The press didn't see this coming?

Rather than investigate farfetched claims of weapons of mass destruction, publish the dissenting opinions of legitimate authorities and challenge proclamations of innocence in the face of clear evidence of torture, domestic spying and cherry-picking intelligence, the press acted as shills (sometimes paid shills) for the criminal gang running the White House.

The cost of this negligence has been horrific; 2,000 casualties, $400 billion in taxpayers' money and a homeland that is, if anything, less safe now.

If we are to be alarmed about anything, it is the absolute failure of the American press to do its job.

Bill Woods
Seattle