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Not just 5 years. They were lead cheerleaders for the 2003 Iraq War.

by glial 6y ago

stevesimmons 6y ago
And Murdoch's media in UK were cheerleaders for Brexit, and in Australia for climate change denial. At least Rupert Murdoch's son James has split from the family media interests and spoken out: * https://www.ft.com/content/9eab68e1-7afb-4282-95fa-3149bd091efa https://www.ft.com/content/9eab68e1-7afb-4282-95fa-3149bd091... [paywall] * https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/15/media/james-murdoch-election-disinformation/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/15/media/james-murdoch-elect...
refurb 6y ago
So was the majority of both parties and most of the mass media.
rufus_foreman 6y ago
Almost all of the news media were cheerleaders for the Iraq War: "It’s been forgotten this was actually a business-wide consensus, which included the enthusiastic participation of a blue-state intelligentsia. The New Yorker of Remnick, who himself wrote a piece called “Making the Case,” was a source of many of the most ferocious pro-invasion pieces, including a pair written by current Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg, one of a number of WMD hawks who failed up after the war case fell apart. Other prominent Democrat voices like Ezra Klein, Jonathan Chait, and even quasi-skeptic Nick Kristof (who denounced war critics for calling Bush a liar) were on board, as a Full Metal Jacket character put it, “for the big win.” The Washington Post and New York Times were key editorial-page drivers of the conflict; MSNBC unhired Phil Donahue and Jesse Ventura over their war skepticism; CNN flooded the airwaves with generals and ex-Pentagon stoolies, and broadcast outlets ABC, CBS, NBC and PBS stacked the deck even worse: In a two-week period before the invasion, the networks had just one American guest out of 267 who questioned the war, according to Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting." - Matt Taibi, https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/iraq-war-media-fail-matt-taibbi-812230/ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/iraq...

Not just 5 years. They were lead cheerleaders for the 2003 Iraq War.

by glial 6y ago

Not just 5 years. They were lead cheerleaders for the 2003 Iraq War.

And Murdoch's media in UK were cheerleaders for Brexit, and in Australia for climate change denial. At least Rupert Murdoch's son James has split from the family media interests and spoken out: * https://www.ft.com/content/9eab68e1-7afb-4282-95fa-3149bd091efa https://www.ft.com/content/9eab68e1-7afb-4282-95fa-3149bd091... [paywall] * https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/15/media/james-murdoch-election-disinformation/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/15/media/james-murdoch-elect...

refurb 6y ago

So was the majority of both parties and most of the mass media.

rufus_foreman 6y ago

Almost all of the news media were cheerleaders for the Iraq War: "It’s been forgotten this was actually a business-wide consensus, which included the enthusiastic participation of a blue-state intelligentsia. The New Yorker of Remnick, who himself wrote a piece called “Making the Case,” was a source of many of the most ferocious pro-invasion pieces, including a pair written by current Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg, one of a number of WMD hawks who failed up after the war case fell apart. Other prominent Democrat voices like Ezra Klein, Jonathan Chait, and even quasi-skeptic Nick Kristof (who denounced war critics for calling Bush a liar) were on board, as a Full Metal Jacket character put it, “for the big win.” The Washington Post and New York Times were key editorial-page drivers of the conflict; MSNBC unhired Phil Donahue and Jesse Ventura over their war skepticism; CNN flooded the airwaves with generals and ex-Pentagon stoolies, and broadcast outlets ABC, CBS, NBC and PBS stacked the deck even worse: In a two-week period before the invasion, the networks had just one American guest out of 267 who questioned the war, according to Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting." - Matt Taibi, https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/iraq-war-media-fail-matt-taibbi-812230/ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/iraq...