Watch Frontline
PBS' Frontline is currently broadcasting the first part of a four part series entitled News War. Absolutely fascinating stuff, and I highly recommend it.
The people they lined up for Part I are truly a stellar cast -- executive editors for the New York Times and Washington Post, a writer for The New Yorker, Bob Woodward, a professor of journalism at George Washington University, Judith Miller and others, talking about how the Bush Administation has manipulated the press.
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Frontline is doing a first-class job with this. This is history in the making.
People don't realize how difficult it is to work in the news business when all parties are honorable and up-front. When you have people (very smart ones) intentionally lying to manipulate the public's perception of events, it's often only in hindsight that we see the truth.
"The theory of a free press is that truth will emerge from free discussion, not that it will be presented perfectly and instantly in any one account."
-- Walter Lippmann
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February 21, 2007 11:57 AM