{"id":25569,"date":"2023-03-21T12:05:01","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T19:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=25569"},"modified":"2023-03-21T12:05:02","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T19:05:02","slug":"20-years-later-the-stain-of-corporate-medias-role-in-promoting-iraq-war-remains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/03\/21\/20-years-later-the-stain-of-corporate-medias-role-in-promoting-iraq-war-remains\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Years Later, the Stain of Corporate Media’s Role in Promoting Iraq War Remains"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A person carrying an umbrella passes a newspaper vendor on March 20, 2003 in Washington, D.C <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Photo: Alex Wong\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It should not be forgotten that this debacle of death and destruction was not only a profound error of policymaking; it was the result of a carefully executed crusade of disinformation and lies,” said one prominent critic.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

BRETT WILKINS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mar 20, 2023 (CommonDreams.org)<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the world this week mark the 20th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, journalism experts weighed in on the corporate media’s complicity in amplifying the Bush administration’s lies, including ones about former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s nonexistent nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons upon which the war was waged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Twenty years ago, this country’s mainstream media\u2014with one notable exception\u2014bought into phony Bush administration claims about Hussein’s stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, helping cheerlead our nation into a conflict that ended the lives of thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis,” Los Angeles Times <\/em>columnist Robin Abcarian wrote<\/a> Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That “one notable exception” was a group of journalists at the Washington, D.C. bureau of Knight Ridder\u2014which was acquired by McClatchy in 2006\u2014who published dozens of articles in several of the company’s papers debunking and criticizing <\/a>the Bush administration’s dubious claims about Iraq and its WMDs. Their efforts were the subject of the 2017 Rob Reiner film Shock and Awe<\/em><\/a>, starring Woody Harrelson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

20 Years After the Invasion of Iraq, Will the Media's Complicity Be Flushed Down the Memory Hole?

It\u2019s imperative to reclaim the memory of this war not only from the Bush officials who waged it but also from the corporate media system that helped sell it. https:\/\/t.co\/Q4EwJ3cWaJ<\/a><\/p>— RootsAction (@Roots_Action) March 17, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote>