From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Rich Gauszka wrote:
>  video and transcripts at
>
> http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/btw/watch.html
>
> "Buying the War" examines the press coverage in the lead-up to the war
> as evidence of a paradigm shift in the role of journalists in democracy
> and asks, four years after the invasion, what's changed? "More and more
> the media become, I think, common carriers of administration statements
> and critics of the administration," says THE WASHINGTON POST's Walter
> Pincus. "We've sort of given up being independent on our own."


It's not just that. It was very noticeable after 9-11 when you had all
sorts of people talking like the apocalypse was in progress & then it
just carried on with the "any criticism of a president is
treason" rationale.

Adam

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