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Explore the role the press played in the lead-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
Posted April 27th, 2007 by BLACK CELL
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I was so angry after watching this that I went & joined the local peace movment.
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/btw/watch.html
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B.C. you nailed it!
this was the most important story of the week if not the the past decade. I'm sure that more than a few of us felt hugely vindicated by Bill Moyers' expose. I hope you don't mind if I repost this so no one misses it.
After Moyers Iraq Documentary, DC Reporters in Damage-Control Mode
By David Sirota, WorkingForChange.com. Posted April 27, 2007.
In the lead up to and wake of Bill Moyers' much-anticipated mega-dunk on the Washington press corps this week, we are seeing the ugliest side of Beltway culture -- sophistry and damage control.
....Moyers piece is important not just because it has exposed the entire sham that was pre-war Beltway journalism, but also because he has finally exacted a price -- in this case, humiliation -- from the reporters whose power-worshiping, must-stay-on-the-cocktail-party-circuit tendencies led them to aggressively push this country into war. And we can hope that fear of future humiliation will help prevent another gross abdication of responsibility next time around.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/51110/
Makes me angry too
I didn't watch all of it but it was certainly an eye opener. I remember after 9-11 trying not to get caught up emotionally and it was not easy. It felt like being in a crowd and someone started shouting "Stone him" and soon others were shouting and more and more were shouting and I kept trying to stay detached from that because it seemed like an angry mob. Angry mobs don't usually make good choices. Now we can look back and see that that is exactly what happened. Bush led the chants!