Last night Bill Moyers returned to his PBS Jouranl with a wonderfully complete and reasoned exploration of how the American people were, well, screwed by the press in the lead-up to the war.
Call it "The Press' Katrina". Being a PBS show, you should be able to see another run of the episode this week on your PBS station. If you're reading this, yopu probably won't find anything too surprising but you can't go anywhere else to find all the material in one easy-to-digest place. Tape it for any friend you have who ever suggests that 'what our President wants' is reason enough for anything, no matter who the President is.
You can watch it here.
It Starts Like This:
BILL MOYERS: Four years ago this spring the Bush administration took leave of reality and plunged our country into a war so poorly planned it soon turned into a disaster. The story of how high officials misled the country has been told. But they couldn't have done it on their own; they needed a compliant press, to pass on their propaganda as news and cheer them on.
Since then thousands of people have died, and many are dying to this day. Yet the story of how the media bought what the White House was selling has not been told in depth on television. As the war rages into its fifth year, we look back at those months leading up to the invasion, when our press largely surrendered its independence and skepticism to join with our government in marching to wa
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