I just noticed that there is no forum on serious media. That's not to diminish the importance of fake news and it's transcendence over real news for being in sync with public sentiment. Still, I'd like a special place we can all go to for taking good hard whacks to the collective heads of MSM.
Why not?
So I found a decent article in Mother Jones which asks why should the media be excepted from an examination of their role in helping to make the IRaq war possible? But who would make that examination? MSM has the built-in excuse that it would not be right for them to make the story about themselves.
LOL!!! I bet they feel that way. Let me see, Judith Miller, Tim Russert, Matthew Cooper and many, many more found religion and would not dare make themselves the story.
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Originally Posted by Greg Mitchell, Mother Jones
In the thousands of articles and television reports marking the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, nearly every important aspect of the war was probed. Fingers were pointed at the usual suspects—Rumsfeld, Bremer, and Cheney; stubborn Republicans and weak-willed Democrats, among many others—but conspicuously absent from the media coverage was any soul-searching on behalf of the press, as if there had been no major media slips or tragic omissions over the past five years. With months to plan for the commemoration, the media were ready to take stock of everything—but themselves.
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