In a comment on Mark Steyn’s piece on the “brutal Afghan winter”, Instapundit asks:

Honestly, why should we listen to the press when they can’t even get the weather right?

This reminds me of the so-called “storm of the century” the night that the transport carrying Ron Brown went down in Bosnia. The weather was reported by most media outlets as being terrible, and the obvious cause of the plane crash. Problem was, anyone who bothered to go look at the actual weather that night on any of the numerous sources, available even then, could see that it was simply a light rain, and well within normal flying conditions.

But that didn’t fit the story template. And if the plane went down in the “storm of the century,” it allowed them to ignore politically-inconvenient facts, such as that the plane was vectored in the wrong direction from the runway, that a Bosnian aircraft controller committed “suicide” shortly thereafter, and that military medical personnel had their careers ruined for questioning during autopsy a perfectly-circular hole in the top of the Commerce Secretary’s head, and that the X-rays that might have explained it mysteriously disappeared.

To quote Mr. Layne, “we can fact-check your asses.”