More on pre-Iraq war media
Writing by abuhatem on Sunday, 1 of June , 2008 at 1:49 am
As you probably have noticed I have posted pretty much every single article to do with the media’s abysmal coverage of the Iraq war on the Abu Hatem News sidebar feed. This includes the recent remarks by CBS’ Katie Couric and Harry Smith, CNN’s Jessica Yellin and (disagreeing) Wolf Blitzer, NBC’s (disagreeing) Tom Brockow, Brian Williams, Tim Russert (both found in aforementioned the Katie Couric link), and (agreeing) Chris Matthews who called MSNBC bosses as “basically pro-war,” and the older remarks of MSNBC’s Phil Donnahue, PBS’ Bill Moyers, CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, CBS’ Dan Rather and Walter Cronkite, and the blog musings of Harvard’s Neiman Foundation, the Huffington Post, Salon.com’s Glen Greenwald (who interviewed a former Donnahue producer yesterday) the Project for Excellence in Journalism, and the American Journalism Review. As well as Scott McClellan’s recent admissions to MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann that Fox News was an administration propaganda tool where Cheney had “a lot of allies.” Not to mention newspapers such as the New York Times who this week decided to cover this story.
This should be enough of a preponderance of evidence for the average joe to make up his mind that the patriotic ferver that resulted from the crisis consequent to the 9/11 terrorist attacks destroyed the quality of media coverage and squashed most questioning of the Iraq war on most networks, although there were many notable exceptions (not limited to McClatchy - Donnahue and Pat Buchannan on MSNBC, Bob Novak on CNN, former National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft in the WSJ) in our free press (and in the foreign press - the BBC, the Gaurdian, Al-Jazeera, CBC, and the Independent were all against the war as well as France’s Le Monde).
Category: The media
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