Phony War with Real Casualties?

Posted on March 31, 2006 in Journalists & Pundits Occupation of Iraq

Normon Solomons talks about the White House killing the messenger whenever the U.S. suffers a reverse in the Occupation. I think this says a lot: the war isn’t the actual events on the ground, it’s the story the public hears. So why land troops there at all? Why not just play fake stories?

The myth of the liberal media is an umbrella canard that shelters the corollary myth of anti-war media. From the time that the New York Times splashed stories about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction on front pages before the invasion of Iraq, a cross-section of the U.S. media has remained way behind the curve of what could be credibly reported about gaping holes in White House claims. But even a lapdog press corps is apt to start growling when it has been leashed to lies too many times.