Is the media responsible for our invasion of Iraq?

[laura888]

Ironpost posted a question that I think deserves recycling...

What should be done about hate tv/radio?

I think that the media should be held responsible - perhaps legally - for the mess we're in in Iraq.

They absolutely failed to air other opposing points of view about the war. They are just as responsible for Iraq as our elected officials.

So - since they aren't going away after the election - I think they need to be held more accountable with new regulations.

[DaveSZ]

1. Yep

Everything from the NYTimes, to RW hate radio was pro-Iraq war.

[still_one]

2. The media and the administration for the most part are the same entity

[Bonhomme Richard]

3. No, the american public is responsible because....................

they are too dam lazy to invest any time in seeking the truth.

[Bandit]

4. In a way DU is the Media ~ You paint with a wide brush

I doubt Salon or Slate or Mother Jones or ??? should bare much responsibility.

[John_Shadows_1]

5. Partially, sure.

The profiles on Judith Miller from the NYTimes were particularly devastating - Ahmed Chalabi led her by the nose, and she printed a bunch of the lies about WMD's.

[swinney]

6. No absolutely not

The PNAC Gang had decided long before 9-11 and nothing would change their goals.

1998 goal. Tried to get Clinton to remove Saddam.

Reason--Security of Israel and Security of Oil.

Never overlook this fact

Pnac are almost all of Jewish faith.. Israel first at any cost.

Israel First-America Second.

[Sporadicus]

7. Responsible - No

complicit - Yes