Coming next Wednesday, PBS will air Buying the War (video preview), an analysis of how the media dropped the ball in the run-up to the Iraq War. Writes Greg Mitchell in Editor & Publisher, “While much of the evidence of the media’s role as cheerleaders for the war presented here is not new, it is skillfully assembled, with many fresh quotes from interviews (with the likes of Tim Russert and Walter Pincus) along with numerous embarrassing examples of past statements by journalists and pundits that proved grossly misleading or wrong.” It airs Wednesday, April 25th, at 9 PM on PBS.
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