Summary
BACK in 2002, when the White House began clamoring for an invasion of Iraq, this newspaper protested that the war wasn't necessary, was based on dubious claims, and would hurt America. But most U.S. news media didn't challenge the attack plan. The Washington Post, for example, supported the invasion.
After the Iraq war proved to be a historic blunder, you'd think that major papers and television stations would have become leery of White House warmongering. Not so, says the Columbia Journalism Review. Similarly, the national media raised few objections last year when the administration threatened to attack Iran on phony claims that Iran was building atomic weapons.See the full content of this document
Extract
Insipid: ; Rubber-Stamp Media
"Against a backdrop of war drums, the media often left administration assumptions unexplored and un...
See the full content of this document
Sponsored links
