Cindy Sheehan, who owes her noteriety to the media giving too much attention to her last August, is now a media critic. Seems she and her supporters think the media is too soft on George W. Bush and too hard on her.

Sheehan supporters often fault the news media for questioning her motives and giving equal weight to pro-Bush demonstrators. Sheehan's detractors lament that journalists continue to give her consequence by reporting on her activities.

But the harshest critics of the so-called mainstream media are Sheehan and her immediate circle of activists.

Last summer, when her 26-day, anti-war vigil was front-page, international news, Sheehan often complained — to large groups of journalists — that the news media were ignoring the story of the anti-war movement.

Last week, it was the same message. Journalists visiting Camp Casey, the protest site named for Sheehan's son who was killed in the Iraq war, were frequently dressed down for various omissions and transgressions.

Jacque Betz, an anti-war demonstrator from Waldo, Fla., scolded journalists for failing to aggressively pursue claims that Bush wanted to bomb the Arab news organization Al-Jazeera.

Hey, Cindy -- you don;t get to micromanage the press. And given your book, speaking fees, and lies about your meeting with the President, I think you are due a little scrutiny.

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