Who is the real author of the Petraeus Report?

There is simply nothing that can get the big news orgs to stop reporting that the September progress report on Iraq is being written by General Petraeus, even though we all know it's being written by the White House. Just sit back and marvel at all the wrongness -- and at how lazy, predictable, comprehensive and dispiriting it is:

it was widely reported that the report will not be written by Petraeus and Crocker, but by the White House, with "input" from the two men. And because this blog strives to be as fair-minded as possible, I only included examples that were unequivocally references to the imminent written report, as opposed to the testimony that Petraeus and Crocker will give to Congress. As a result, the above doesn't reflect the scores and scores, if not hundreds, of references to the "Petraeus report," which could conceivably have been references to the testimony but which in most cases almost certainly were references to the written report. So if anything, the above vastly understates the case.
 
This gives rise to a key point that's getting a bit lost. The media wouldn't be shouting "Petraeus report" in unison if the White House hadn't spent literally weeks hammering the phrase into the minds of reporters and the public at every conceivable opportunity. And now, even though it's widely known that this was a total sham designed to bolster the report's credibility in advance, reporters and editors just can't seem to get it out of their heads, even though such an exercise certainly wouldn't be all that challenging.
 
This is a really, really big deal. The White House and war supporters are shoving all their chips onto the written report. Indeed, the credibility the public accords this thing when it comes out could have significant influence over the direction and politics of the war debate this fall, and by extension over the direction of the war itself. And every time the media repeats the Gospel According To Petraeus sham, it's helping the White House obscure the fact that this report will actually be written by the same crew who've been lying to us about the war all along.