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

USA Today by Peter Johnson, | Apr. 23, 2007 (News Report)

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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 by Marty Heyman - Oct. 1, 2008

This is a recap of another news outlet's material without any additional reporting. It's essentially a commercial for the program with a couple of asides thrown in. There is no comment about the content of the show from any voices, especially from contrary or otherwise enlightening voices. There is no information except a preview of what the show will tell us.

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