Finally, they confirm what we all knew last year. American journalism is dead and must be reinvented.
Competitive pressures and a fear of appearing unpatriotic discouraged journalists from doing more critical reporting during the run-up to the invasion of Iraq (news - web sites), according to reporters and others at a conference on media coverage of the war.
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Much of the criticism focused on a Sept. 8, 2002, New York Times article by Judith Miller and Michael Gordon, which said Iraq was importing aluminum tubes that could be used in centrifuges to enrich uranium, a critical step in making an atomic bomb.
Massing said nuclear experts or weapons inspectors would have refuted the evidence had the Times consulted them. Experts later verified the tubes were not used for nuclear weapons, but The New York Times and other papers buried that news in their inside pages, he said.
Buried the news?!?!?! Buried the NEWS?!?!?! ... sigh ...
One is left wondering what the Anti-War Movement would have looked like had we had a free press in this country rather than frightened mouth-piece for a corrupt government.
Just further evidence of the rotting of America?
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