The Media slinks back to its corner.... [View All]

[kentuck]

After all, during the Shock and Awe campaign of George W Bush and before, there were no bigger cheerleaders for the war in Iraq than the American "media". From personalizing the war by posting photos on their studio walls to 24/7 coverage by their armchair and retired generals, fawning over all the new weaponry in our arsenal.

Then they got their great adventure by being "embedded" with the troops. Some of them died "heroically" in the line of fire and others were seriously injured. That did not dissuade them from manipulating the props for George W Bush, from his little flight to Baghdad in the middle of the night to his photo-op on board the USS Lincoln. They did all they could do to help Dubya in his "war" effort.

Now that the deterioration has reached the point where it can no longer be ignored, the "media" finds itself in a self-inflicted predicament. How can they criticize something to which they were so instrumental in bringing about? How can they report responsibly about the present status of our troops in Iraq when they are as responsible, or moreso, than anyone in the Administration, including George W Bush? How can they ever divorce themselves from their own financial interests and report what is in the interest of the American people?