The Washington Post was instrumental in uncovering the Watergate scandal. Very cool.
So I wonder what happened over the past 30 years to make that newspaper compromise its journalistic integrity.
Apparently, a lot of citizens have been questioning why the Post (and other mainstream papers) never bothered to question the Bush administration's questionable motives for launching the war on Iraq, and why the media turned a blind eye to the Downing Street Memo.
A new article at Consortiumnews.com quotes a recent editorial in the Post as essentially asserting that everyone knew that Bush was lying about the reasons for waging war on Iraq, so they had no reason to state the obvious on their pages. [Read story.]
Amazing!
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