An interesting exchange from last night’s Anderson Cooper 360:
This much is true; during the lead-up to the war, there were several segments of the media that were, quite obviously, in the tank for the war. Judith Miller at The New York Times was one. The entire Editorial Board of the Washington Post was another. The media fell hook, line, and sinker, for the Administrations justification for going to war and barely bothered to question it until troops were already on the ground, at which point it was, obviously far too late.
Doesn’t exactly sound like the role the media should be playing in a free society to me.
H/T: Matthew Yglesias
