The administration's spin backfires

After the administration's overemphasis on Al Qaeda in Iraq and the reexamination of the group that has provoked, take a look at how Alissa Rubin now describes AIQ in the NYTimes.

In addition, a suicide truck bombing north of Baghdad was apparently aimed at a meeting of Sunni tribal sheiks who recently agreed to oppose extremists allied with Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, a Sunni Arab group with some foreign influence.

There's no way this descriptive clause would have been written (or allowed past editors) a month ago.

Whether this represents a small piece of a broader media rejection, I don't know, but the press has recently appeared much more dubious in the various press conferences to administration claims.

Just a few months ago, "the Iran arming everybody" press conference went largely unchallenged, but for some reason, this latest round of "Al Qaeda did it" is being spit back up.

Are we seeing a shift in the tides or am I imagining things?