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On Monday, CNNs Christiane Amanpour asked how so many journalists could have been misled in the run-up to the Iraq War. She interviewed two reporters for Knight-Ridder newspapers, Jonathan Landay and Warren Strobel, both of whom have been vindicated as being consistently right on Iraq.
Amanpour began by recapping some of the George W. Bush administrations hallmark assertions regarding Saddam Husseins purported programs to make nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, and highlighting the debunked claims that Iraq was importing aluminum tubes to use in centrifuges for enriching uranium.
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It was very lonely, he said. One of the ironies is that every time we would write something, the White House would say nothing, because we realized after a while that that would have been the best advertisement for our stories that we could possibly ask for.
Theres a problem with journalism in Washington, said Strobel, and thats access. The New York Times and others had access to top officials who were spinning this line. We talked to those people as well, but most of our reporting was done with intelligence military and diplomatic mid-level and lower-level, the types that journalists dont normally talk to or go after.
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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/19/amanpour-on-iraq-where-were-the-journalists/
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)along with the rest of them.
Methinks the lady doth protest too much.
La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)at some point fox accused her of being an al quaeda mouthpiece
countryjake
(8,554 posts)http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2003/sep/16/broadcasting.Iraqandthemedia
CNN's star reporter, Christiane Amanpour, has claimed the 24-hour news network was "intimidated" by the Bush administration in its coverage of the war in Iraq.
Amanpour said CNN was "muzzled" by a combination of the White House and the high-profile success of the controversial pro-war news network, Rupert Murdoch-owned Fox News...
"I'm sorry to say that, but certainly television - and perhaps to a certain extent my station - was intimidated by the administration and its foot soldiers at Fox News. And it did, in fact, put a climate of fear and self-censorship in terms of the kind of broadcast work we did." ......
A Fox News spokeswoman said: "It's better to be viewed as a foot soldier for Bush than spokeswoman for al-Qaeda."
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)The "war reporter" is the most glamorous, well-paid, highly-respected member of any outlet's journalism team. War is dramatic, news of war knocks the rating up because people like (if not enjoy) seeing hte obmbs and carnage and drama and fear.
The more war, the more war reporters and higher ratings. The fewer wars, the fewer war reporters and more ratings-free stories like congressional sessions and kittens in trees.
MindPilot
(12,693 posts)You were LIED to and as reporters you should have been able to figure that out. Then your job as a reporter is to TELL THE FUCKING TRUTH!
The journalists and reporters who either went along with the war or kept silent are just as responsible as the people who told the lies and gave the orders.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Remember when anyone asking tough questions got slapped with the "giving aid and comfort to the terrorists" or "insulting the memory of 3000 Americans lost on 9-11" -labels??
Whisp
(24,096 posts)These people all make me sick. She was with CNN and every stooge at CNN supported the war.
fucking disgusting history re-writing liars.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Judith Miller KNEW SHE WAS LYING.