Tom Brokaw's Disturbing Defense of the Media and Iraq

Editor & Publisher by Greg Mitchell | May. 31, 2008 (Opinion)

What is most appalling, however, is that it took McClellan's book to produce a debate about this tremendously vital subject at all....[in the] coverage of the fifth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war back in March, the media reviewed every aspect of the war and pointed fingers everywhere, except at the media. There was almost no self-assessment, after five years of war. Full Story »

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by Stephen Pizzo - Oct. 1, 2008

This piece is important, not just because of what it says, but by whom is saying it. It is long overdue for the media -- of which I was once a part -- to look deeply into its own soul and come to grips with its own responsibility for the worst foreign policy decisions since Gulf of Tonkin took us into Vietnam. The media congratulates itself when it exposes the personal and professional failings in the business and political world. Yet it too often explains away its own failings.