The Guardian: Why are the media playing lapdog and not watchdog - again - on war in Iraq?

[Fred Sanders]

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/10/media-lapdog-sold-war-in-iraq

Seeing as the media will soon tire of fear mongering on Ebola when the small breakout is contained and helicopter shots of hospitals at a distance are not cutting it, they will turn to ISIS, so this article from non American media is worthy for its truthiness.

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"No matter who is in power, the media finds a reason not to question the march to war."

"A war-weary American public that a year ago resoundingly rejected US military intervention in Syria to overthrow the Assad regime now is rallying behind the use of force to destroy the so-called Islamic State (Isis). In just three months, from June to September, support for US airstrikes in Iraq soared from 45% percent to 71%, and to 65% for airstrikes in Syria.

How did such an astounding turnabout occur? Certainly it wasn’t due to the persuasive powers of President Obama, who seems to have been reluctantly dragged into a conflict that he once acknowledged has no military solution.

The credit for selling Obama’s war on Isis must go to the mainstream American media."