Editor & Publisher: The Pentagon Papers of Our Time?

[stickdog]

http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/columns/shoptalk_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000963759

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Some newspaper editors said they were stymied by the Associated Press's lack of coverage of the memo. Deborah Seward, AP's international editor, said in a statement, "There is no question AP dropped the ball in not picking up on the Downing Street memo sooner."

But of all the major national newspapers, none have been so
deconstructionist, cavalier, and churlish in treating the memos as The New York Times. Todd Purdum, for example, has declared that the documents are not “shocking.” Official evidence of a rush to war not shocking?

It is hard to escape the conclusion that, for the most part, the American print media’s bringing up the rear “beetlebum” approach in covering the memos constituted a rather blatant dereliction of duty. It indicates a complicity in resisting a re-examination of the official lies on the path to war. It is almost enough to make one believe that major media outlets are afraid to take on the White House’s version of truth, either out of worry over being out of step with other “mainstream media,” or because they fear losing access to high-level sources, or because top editors supported, and support, the invasion and occupation of Iraq--and in some well-known cases, their own stories “fixed” intelligence to fit the pro-war view.

But what about the Fourth Estate’s integrity before history?

[seemslikeadream]

1. MSM just doesn't know what it is

[EC]

2. Dylan

really knew how to relate...

[Coastie for Truth]

3. As to the MSM and the DSM

there's an old Navy/Coast Guard Expression--

HE'S SO FOCKING DUMB HE COULDN'TFND HIS ARS HOLE WITH BOTH HANDS