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Newsweek/The Bigger story |
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You're missing the point |
| Date Posted: |
05/17/2005 |
| Message: |
The Newsweek fiasco and the White House/talk radio flame war is symptomatic of a bigger paradigm that affects all of us as Americans and an journalists.
Since 9/11, this administration with it's conservative base, (with Fox News and talk radio as it's media arm) has successfully cowed the mainstream media.
Afraid of appearing unpatriotic, they failed to stingently challenge the lead up to the war in Iraq. By buying into the embedded journalist strategy they became cheerleaders during the war itself. And they still are too intimidated to forcefully address the aftermath of the Iraq war, the starvation of the Afghanistan war, or the terrible way the US Militay in general or soldiers and their familes are being used.
Where's the anaysis, where's the audit on what it cost us econonomically, politically (on an international basis) and psychologically?
With Newsweek now cowed by one sloppy effort, who will look under the next rock?
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