I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The 'Axis of Evil' was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well.
The Germans certainly - the intelligence service believed that there were WMD. It turns out that we were all wrong, probably in my judgment, and that is most disturbing.
Portraying as human the people you hear about on the news doing bad things is dangerous. But it's also necessary and important.
The Iraq war fueled distrust of the press from both sides.
There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it.
I still believe to some degree that Iraq had WMD.
Well-reported news is a public good; bad news is bad for everyone.
What you realize hanging out with investigative reporters is that, while they may be personally liberal, they don't let that get in the way of a good story.
In the Dobbsian view of America, the mainstream media isn't evil because it's liberal but because it's lazy. And Washington is utterly corrupt, has sold out, Democrats and Republicans alike. And corporate America is an insatiable pig.
Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad.
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