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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Dwight Rousu
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by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 1, 2008

Brokaw is an intellectually and morally bankrupt talking head. Mitchell captures the hideously costly failure of NBC to fact check the obvious lies that were fertilized and favored by almost all the neocons and their still captive right wing big corporate press that overwhelmingly beat the drums for war and drummed out any commentators or experts who spoke truth in attacking the lies. Well written and researched.

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