Mark Steyn Fries The Seattle Post-Intelligenser

Recently, a woman who worked for four Democratic congressmen and the Seattle-PI was arrested for spying for Iraq. But, the PI saw fit to higlight her distant cousin in the White House, chief of staff Andrew Card.

Mark Steyn fries the PI.

Anyone who wants to understand why the media are held in such low regard by the public -- in polls of the most respected professions we usually come somewhere between Nigerian e-mail scammers and serial pedophiles -- should consider the following headline from an Associated Press story in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer last week:

''Accused Spy Is Cousin Of Bush Staffer''

Mark Steyn has a test for the editors of the PI:

1. Name all your second cousins.

2. Where do they live?

3. When did you last see them?