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seaver---i can't really remember the point exactly when the coverage started to turn--can you?
at this point, i don't feel particular motivation to go back through the plotline of the iraq thing--i opposed it from the beginning, i oppose it now---but there was a point at which things started to come apart in the co-ordination of the press on how the war was presented in the mainstream press. my sense is that things shifted sometime in 2005, but--and maybe because i'm tired at the moment--i keep lining the shift up with katrina.
i think there's another problem with press pooling--quite apart from it's conflict with freedom of the press and the assumption that a free press will by definition be to some extent in political opposition---the problem is that it only works for a short time and ends up generating both an undermining of the credibility of the state itself (because sooner or later the seams start to show in the story) and--maye more importantly--within the press itself. i think it's self-defeating. as much as i'm inclined to think that iraq demonstrates this, i'm not sure...whence the question.
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