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Why WPosts Hiatt Should Be Fired
March 19, 2013
Exclusive: Toting up the Iraq Wars cost is staggering, including nearly 4,500 U.S. soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis dead. But a decade later, few of its architects in government or apologists in the press have faced accountability. Washington Post editorial-page editor Fred Hiatt for one, notes Robert Parry.
By Robert Parry
What is perhaps most remarkable about the tenth anniversary of President George W. Bushs war of aggression in Iraq is that almost no one who aided and abetted that catastrophic and illegal decision has been held accountable in any meaningful way.
..........arguably the most egregious example of the news media failing to exact serious accountability for getting this major historical event wrong is the case of Fred Hiatt, who was the editorial-page editor of the Washington Post when it served as drum major for the invade-Iraq parade and who still holds the same prestigious position ten years later.
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So how could Hiatt still have the same important job at the Washington Post after being catastrophically wrong about the justifications for going to war and after smearing war critics who tried to expose some of Bushs lies to the American people? How could the U.S. news media be so upside-down in its principles that honest journalists get fly-specked and fired, while dishonest ones get life-time job security?
The short answer, I suppose, is that Hiatt was just doing what the Graham family, which still controls the newspaper, wanted done. From my days at Newsweek, which was then part of the Washington Post Company, I had seen this drift toward neoconservatism at the highest editorial ranks, the well-dressed and well-bred men preferred by publisher Katharine Graham and her son Donald.
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Berlum
(7,044 posts)grasswire
(50,130 posts)bvar22
(39,909 posts)The ONLY Media in the USA offering any opposition to the constant Beating of the Drums in the
Rush to WAR in Iraq were "Fringe Leftist" outlets.
Since the Telecommunications Act of 1996 allowing virtual monopolies of news outlets by single LARGE Corporations, all major "News" outlets in the USA have "drifted" to carrying only the news & opinion that benefits LARGE Corporations and their (now) small handful of very RICH owners.
The Bad News is that it is getting WORSE by the day.
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Vinnie From Indy
(10,820 posts)The nakedness of it all is quite breathtaking.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)... shouldn't the so-called "experts" have known too? Of course they should, and did.
The Wizard
(12,545 posts)through the main stream channels any longer. They just spew propaganda with Pox News providing cover for the rest. Any and all real news must be accessed through alternative sources.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Through their propaganda on behalf of Bushes and Cheney millions have died.