Tom Brokaw's Disturbing Defense of the Media and Iraq

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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Dan Fejes
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by Dan Fejes - Oct. 1, 2008

Fantastic review. Brokaw: "The White House has an unbelievable ability to control the flow of information at any time but especially at a time when they are planning to go to war." If he believed his organization's ability to work effectively was controlled by the White House he should have told his viewers so. Call it state media and be done with it. Mitchell makes that point very effectively.

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