The Iraq War and the Media

[erpowers]

Does anyone at DU think the television and news media has yet to do a thorough job of detailing how the Bush Administration got so many things wrong in the run up to the war in Iraq? I have been reading the book "Hubris". This is the one written by Michael Isakoff and David Corn. This is an extremely interesting book in that it details how the Bush Administration got so many things wrong.

I have seen some spotty stories talking about certain things that the Bush Administration got wrong. For instance, I saw part of a story about the guy named curveball that talked about how he made claims that turned out to be false. However, I do not know if the media has pointed out that there were questions about curveball months before the war started. In addition, I do not know if anyone in the media has gone through the whole story and talked about how much the Bush Administration relied on things that could not be confirmed by intelligence agencies or things that had been debunked (sometimes a number of times) by the intelligence agencies.

[Echo In Light]

1. No. Truthful reporting/journalism isn't the real obligation of corporate media. Never has been

[90-percent]

2. MSM?

They didn't get the war and intel wrong.

Invading Iraq was job One since this White House entered in January 2001.

They cherry pricked, cajoled, and planted info in MSM (Judy Miller NYT in particular) to reach their war goal.

Not incompetence. This was all deliberate. MSM will not acknowledge our President chose a false war for his own goals, and the wet dreams of the neocon ex nixon-reagan-bush members of Bush cabinet.

-90% Jimmy

[Echo In Light]

3. Exactly. The "incompetence" ruse has sadly gotten a lot of mileage

[AndyTiedye]

4. Their Parent Corporations Make More Money off the War Than Anything Else

so of course they will make their TV network subsidiaries do everything in their power to keep the war going forever, start new ones, etc.

If this hurts their ratings (which it does) they do not care.

[Echo In Light]

5. BOOGA! BOOGA! Fear...Fear...Fear. Media sells Problem/Reaction/Solution

How many are even aware that GE owns NBC, and is one of the planets largest "defense" contractors?

...probably about as many who are aware of the PNAC.