Mainstream Media: Nothing to Be Proud OfTommi Avicolli Meccabyline‚ Apr. 27‚ 2007Former CBS anchor Dan Rather admitted that mainstream reporters and editors blew it big time. They failed to expose the Bush administration’s lies for going to war in Iraq: That Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and that he had a connection to 9/11. Rather was interviewed as part of Bill Moyers’ 90-minute “Buying the War,” on PBS April 25, a documentary that examines how the press helped Bush and company sell the Iraq war to America. |