Moyers hammers the media for 'Buying the War' in Iraq

Journalists were "shocked and traumatized by the atrocities of 9/11, of people hurling themselves out of 50-story windows in the World Trade Center," PBS newsman Bill Moyers says. "Their natural response was to rally around the troops, make sure the commander-in-chief got the perpetrators."
But that led most news organizations to "suspend their skepticism" of an administration bent on war in Iraq, he says, and that contributed to the "great ... Full Story »

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Dwight Rousu
4.6
by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 1, 2008

The article holds promise for the truthtelling of the full program and it's exploration of how the media controlled by big media and rich executives were cheerleaders for the war and ignored the plentiful evidence at the time that the reasons for war were lies. The movie about "Independent Media in a Time of War" would be good to preview if you have not seen it yet (available on google).

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