wow--"US media revisit own failures on Iraq conflict"

NEW YORK, (AFP) - While President George W. Bush (news - web sites) takes heat from the media over the Iraq (news - web sites) conflict, US journalists have started an introspection of their coverage of the administration's pre-war arguments for ousting Saddam Hussein (news - web sites).

"This has been the most shameful era of American media and for American democracy," argued Los Angeles Times columnist Robert Scheer during a March conference on the war and the media at Berkeley University in California.

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"There couldn't have been a single intelligent person in the media who actually thought Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11. Yet they went along with the line," he said. "The media has been sucker-punched completely by this administration."

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"If the administration was misleading us on its intelligence reports coming out of Iraq, it's pretty hard to know where we can get the informations to counter that," he said.

"Where's the blame to be placed? is it to be placed on the media? or on the government that made these statements?"

RATE it at http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=afp/us_iraq_media_debate

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If only that would make top billing on CNN, NBC, Faux, NPR, etc...

So I place the blame on the media. If I knew, THEY should have known.

boom and bust, irrational exuberance! Why is it so hard for people to see what is right in front of them? I think 911 created a different kind of irrationality, one based on the fear that comes with (perceived)vulnerability. That is never a good time to turn off your brain -see Patriot Act.

there's plenty of blame to go around.

Berkeley University in California. As any fool knows, it's the University of California at Berkeley.

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