This Week's "Reliable Sources"

HOWART KURTZ, HOST (voice-over): Purging prosecutors. With Alberto Gonzales’ job on the line, why did it take most TV news programs two months to report on a story that was all over the newspapers? Or are the media going overboard about the attorney general practicing politics as usual?

Four years and counting. As the Iraq conflict grinds on, are journalists now painting the war as a lost cause and all but writing off President Bush’s military surge? We’ll ask NBC’s Richard Engel, CBS’s Allen Pizzey and CNN’s Barbara Starr.

The talk show host, who keeps riling people up.