Comment 60153

By highwater (registered) | Posted February 22, 2011 at 13:27:09 in reply to Comment 60151

Any lingering veneration I had for the vaunted profession of journalism sailed out the window during the run-up to the 2003 Iraq war. I still remember the frustration I felt reading front-page New York Times articles uncritically stenographing President Bush's transparently disingenuous propaganda and rehashing bogus claims sole-sourced from tortured prisoners.

That period was a real eye-opener for me as well, and what got me hooked on this whole internet-thingy, as I pored over volunteer-run political blogs looking for the real story that wasn't being provided in any 'trusted' outlet.

Very few journalists have even acknowledged, let alone apologized for their part in fomenting that war, and the media as a whole seem congenitally incapable of recognizing their failure, yet they continue to base their claims of greater credibility and legitimacy on the very mechanisms that failed them, and us, so spectacularly.

Comment edited by highwater on 2011-02-22 13:52:54

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