Our lies led us into war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1264809,00.html
The press must also be held to account for falsehoods we reproduced
before the invasion
George Monbiot
Tuesday July 20, 2004
The Guardian
So Andrew Gilligan, the BBC reporter who claimed that the government
had sexed up the intelligence about Iraq's weapons of mass
destruction, was mostly right. Much of the rest of the media, which
took the doctored intelligence at face value, was wrong. The reward
for getting it right was public immolation and the sack. The
punishment for getting it wrong was the usual annual bonus. No
government commissions inquiries to discover why reporters reproduce
the government's lies.
George Monbiot
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