https://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/weapons-mass-destruction-and-media-anatomy-failure https://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/weapons-mass-destruction... The WMD

https://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/weapons-mass-destruction-and-media-anatomy-failure https://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/weapons-mass-destruction... The WMD story was amplified by the media, there was no real investigative reporting done to find out the validity of the government's WMD claims and as a consequence the media helped the US raise an army that under wrongful pretexts started a war in the middle east.