Polls show that a sizeable portion of the American population
believes that troops found WMD in Iraq and that Saddam Hussein was
somehow responsible for the attacks of September 11. Even after the
9/11 Commission Report and numerous other reports have concluded
that our intelligence was flawed, people in the freest nation on
earth continue to be misinformed about something that could not be
more vital to understand—the reasons for sending troops into
harm's way. This insightful analysis argues that the media should
have done a better job of performing its traditional role of
skeptic and watchdog, and it examines what went wrong. There are,
of course, many people whose support for going to war in Iraq was
not contingent on the existence of WMD or a connection to al-Qaeda.
But many others based their support for the war on misinformation.
Dadge explores why the media did not aggressively investigate the
claims made by the administration and intelligence agencies; in
short, why they did not do their job: to fully inform the citizenry
to the best of their ability. He examines pressures from the Bush
administration, pressures from corporate consolidation of media
ownership, patriotism and self-censorship, and other factors. He
concludes with recommendations for ways in which the media can
improve their reporting on government.
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