Tonight on Moyer's Journal: McClatchy reporters on McClellan & press reaction

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From Bill Moyer's Journal:

There’s nothing new in Scott McClellan’s book about the propaganda campaign or the role of the press in selling the war, so why is it such big news? Journalists Jonathan Landay and John Walcott of McClatchy newspapers and Greg Mitchell of EDITOR & PUBLISHER examine the performance of the press in the lead up to the war, the reaction of the administration and the media to McClellan’s book, and how the press is handling other important stories today. Landay and Walcott were part of an award-winning team of journalists at Knight-Ridder (now McClatchy) that consistently challenged the administration’s case for war and Mitchell is the author of SO WRONG FOR SO LONG: HOW THE PRESS, THE PUNDITS — AND THE PRESIDENT — FAILED ON IRAQ.

"... if you look at surveys today, the American public has lost an enormous amount of trust in the news media, in the people who are supposed to be their watchdogs over government.
So at a time when you have this problem, doesn't it behoove you to try and start fixing it?"
- Jonathan Landay

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/blog /

Also tonight: David Sirota on NOW

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1. Good to hear. Not ONE news network ever invited Landay and Strobel to air their findings

during the runup to the war or afterwards. They were the reporters speaking to CIA analysts concerned about the intel books being cooked by WH while the Judy Miller types who acted as stenographers for the WH got all the broadcast airtime.

THAT is corporate media.