July 17, 2009
It is commonly argued that
journalism in the run up to the Iraq War failed the American people
because its practitioners placed furtherance of a political agenda
over the supremacy of truth. So if the mainstream media in 2002 was
hamstrung by sloppy and biased reporting, thereby necessitating a
counterrevolution in blogging and online reporting, why, wonders
Michael C. Moynihan, are the new media types now so ready to defend
the sloppy reporting of Seymour Hersh?
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