Remember
the run-up to the Iraq invasion? It's striking how wrong
the mainstream media was on almost everything – and, conversely,
how right Antiwar.com was.
While
Judy Miller was retailing the War Party's talking points on
the front page of the New York Times, we were doing
what we do best – debunking
the conventional wisdom, reporting
the facts, and exposing
the false "intelligence" that stupid pundits swallowed
whole.
While
the War Party's useful idiots – Christopher Hitchens, Bill
Kristol, Peter Beinart, Andrew Sullivan, etc. – were cheering
for war, Antiwar.com was almost alone in denying
that Iraq had "weapons of mass destruction," predicting
the rule of Shi'ite death squads, and warning
that Iran would soon be in the War Party's sights.
Many journalists
have attributed their unwillingness to question the case for
war to pressure from the "patriotism police" and
advertisers. As Walter Isaacson, former CEO at CNN, put it
to Bill Moyers: "Big people in corporations were calling
up and saying, 'You're being anti-American here.'"
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