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Originally Posted by jorgelito
I'm not sure it was necessarily the media's fault per se, but rather, more of a misleading information campaign by the administration.
For me, at first I supported action, that is until Hans Blix came back empty handed and I thought, "Whew, that's great, now we don't need to invade." Then, the whole thing just went to crap.
In the end, people will believe what they want to believe.
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You're right that it started with the administration, but 1) they used the media for that purpose and 2) the media allowed themselves to be used. Donohue is a great example of this: one of MSNBC's top rated shows at the time, cancelled because he was critical of the upcoming war. That's just one of many such stories. And now we get reports that the military analysts for the networks were being fed info by the Pentagon. I don't think the administration
or the media is without blame.
Incidentally, I had about the same experience as you.