War Made Easy

**CHUQ** · Agitator Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts votes: 3

This is a report on a new documantary on 40 years of war planning.

The US media's uncritical reporting on the Bush Administration's reasons for seeking conflict in Iraq has sparked soul-searching and embarrassment in many American newsrooms, as journalists struggle to understand how the fourth estate could have so thoroughly failed in its duty to hold government machinations up to the highest level of scrutiny.

The role of the media as an uncritical reporter of the official government line in the lead up to the war is well-covered terrain, but Norman Solomon's War Made Easy, based on a book of the same name, takes the inquiry a step further by placing it in a historical context that illuminates the manner in which the US government has long "sold" military operations to the public.

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Lacking access to alternate streams of information, major media came to rely on US officials for information and context on the looming conflict, making the critical error of assuming the government sources would not misrepresent the facts.

That's a poor excuse. Hell, we knew what was going on. They were helping sell the war because it was good for viewership. IMO.

**CHUQ** · Agitator Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts votes: 3

And do not forget, it always is extremely good business.