[FairfieldLife] Re: Buying the War
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Moyers's 90-minute documentary on how the librul media willingly helped Bush drag us into the war with Iraq is available for viewing online at: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/btw/watch.html From the Web site: How did the mainstream press get it so wrong? How did the evidence disputing the existence of weapons of mass destruction and the link between Saddam Hussein to 9-11 continue to go largely unreported? What the conservative media did was easy to fathom; they had been cheerleaders for the White House from the beginning and were simply continuing to rally the public behind the President no questions asked. How mainstream journalists suspended skepticism and scrutiny remains an issue of significance that the media has not satisfactorily explored, says Moyers. How the administration marketed the war to the American people has been well covered, but critical questions remain: How and why did the press buy it, and what does it say about the role of journalists in helping the public sort out fact from propaganda? Watched it last night. Brilliant reporting by Moyers. He spares no one in the media, including himself. The entire story of how this war was sold to the American public is just now starting to unfold. It is a shameful tale.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Buying the War
Bill Moyers's 90-minute documentary on how the librul media willingly helped Bush drag us into the war with Iraq is available for viewing online at: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/btw/watch.html geezerfreak wrote: Watched it last night. Brilliant reporting by Moyers. He spares no one in the media, including himself. The entire story of how this war was sold to the American public is just now starting to unfold. It is a shameful tale. So, you're a TV watcher. If the media led you astray before we went to war in Iraq, what makes you think that the media is telling the truth now? But I found Moyers' arguments weak. Almost all the reasons cited by Moyers could be applied to the war in Afghanistan or in Kosovo. And it's a fact that we've been in the middle of a civil war in Korea for decades. Senate Passes Surrender/Pork Bill: http://powerlineblog.com/archives/017451.php
[FairfieldLife] Re: Buying the War
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: Bill Moyers's 90-minute documentary on how the librul media willingly helped Bush drag us into the war with Iraq is available for viewing online at: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/btw/watch.html From the Web site: How did the mainstream press get it so wrong? How did the evidence disputing the existence of weapons of mass destruction and the link between Saddam Hussein to 9-11 continue to go largely unreported? What the conservative media did was easy to fathom; they had been cheerleaders for the White House from the beginning and were simply continuing to rally the public behind the President no questions asked. How mainstream journalists suspended skepticism and scrutiny remains an issue of significance that the media has not satisfactorily explored, says Moyers. How the administration marketed the war to the American people has been well covered, but critical questions remain: How and why did the press buy it, and what does it say about the role of journalists in helping the public sort out fact from propaganda? Watched it last night. Brilliant reporting by Moyers. He spares no one in the media, including himself. The entire story of how this war was sold to the American public is just now starting to unfold. It is a shameful tale. Shameful, but not surprising imo. It was a marketing campaign, adopted so that those same mainstream journalists could continue to gain access to the white house. It is what they have always done, the backroom deals, the unnamed sources, the sucking up. Only this time those in the white house were evil, and the journalists just followed them blindly like lemmings off a cliff.
