The press must also be held to account for
falsehoods we reproduced before the invasion So Andrew Gilligan, the
BBC reporter who claimed that the government
had sexed up the intelligence about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction,
was mostly right. Much of the rest of the media, which took the
doctored intelligence at face value, was wrong. The reward for getting
it right was public immolation and the sack. The punishment for getting
it wrong was the usual annual bonus. No government commissions
inquiries to discover why reporters reproduce the government's lies. [more]
New York Times Admits POOR Iraq WMD Coverage of Bush Lies [more]
UM study critical of WMD coverage: Media said to buy administration line [more]
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