In case you didn't see "Buying the War" on Bill Moyers Journal on PBS, it was a terrific piece of tv journalism. Bill showed how the media bought the Bush's administrations made-up assertions that Iraq had weapons of mass desrtuction.
It explores how America was hustled and duped into believing what Bush and Cheeny wanted us to believe.
"How did the mainstream press get it so wrong? How did the evidence disputing the existence of weapons of mass destruction and the link between Saddam Hussein to 9-11 continue to go largely unreported? "What the conservative media did was easy to fathom; they had been cheerleaders for the White House from the beginning and were simply continuing to rally the public behind the President — no questions asked. How mainstream journalists suspended skepticism and scrutiny remains an issue of significance that the media has not satisfactorily explored," says Moyers. "How the administration marketed the war to the American people has been well covered, but critical questions remain: How and why did the press buy it, and what does it say about the role of journalists in helping the public sort out fact from propaganda?"
You can watch a video of the show and read further info on this terrible con of all of us, now that we're all postcons in Irag. Bill Moyer's Journal
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