Balance in the service of falsehood
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1373913,00.html
The media's failure to challenge official deception over Iraq was the
product of a journalism with built-in bias
David Edwards and David Cromwell
Wednesday December 15, 2004
The Guardian
The British and US governments stand accused of lying their way to war
on Iraq, both at home and abroad. But while a series of what were
widely regarded as nobbled inquiries have at least gone through the
motions of holding them to account, there has been no attempt to hold
the media to account for its role in making war possible. To his
credit, George Monbiot argued on these pages earlier this year that
"the falsehoods reproduced by the media before the invasion of Iraq
were massive and consequential: it is hard to see how Britain could
have gone to war if the press had done its job." But an examination of
this failure, and its roots in a mass media with a long history of
protecting and promoting the powerful, is conspicuous by its absence.
David Edwards
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David Cromwell
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