The REAL importance of "Buying the War"

sirota...

Moyers piece is important not just because it has exposed the entire sham that was pre-war Beltway journalism, but also because he has finally exacted a price - in this case, humiliation - from the reporters whose power-worshiping, must-stay-on-the-cocktail-party-circuit tendencies led them to aggressively push this country into war. And we can hope that fear of future humiliation will help prevent another gross abdication of responsibility next time around.

well, david, i would venture to say that it's not just PRE-WAR beltway journalism, it's TODAY'S beltway journalism... i don't see that things have changed very much, particularly not since, as you so colorfully describe it...

In the lead up to and wake of Bill Moyers' much-anticipated mega-dunk on the Washington press corps this week, we are seeing the ugliest side of Beltway culture - the meltdown, damage-control freak out. Only what's new is that instead of politicians melting down, it's reporters themselves.

as moyers clearly pointed out, all the usual suspects are still out there every day, being called on as experts and being given new and more visible media positions from which to spew their mis- dis- and piss-poor "information"...

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