The real shame of network broadcast reporters
Brian Williams is taking some time off because he embellished a story to make him heroic. The real shame that he and all MSM reporters should bear is their role in selling an illegal war in Iraq which cost thousands of Americans,not their reputation, but their lives.
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Yes, they are liars propagandizing us into bloody war for profit. And they are liars by omission, as well.
Still waiting for stories about the surveillance state, the destruction of our Bill of Rights, the assault on journalism, the collusion of the parties, Wall Street in our government, MIC profiteering, Obama and Hillary's bipartisan-approved TPP, a mammoth, vicious, predatory, corporate coup of democracy:
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but not true that all MSM reporters were selling the Iraq war. Though probably those MSM reporters seriously questioning the case for war were so few in number, they might well be the exception that proves the rule. But anyway I thought they deserve a shout-out. 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/17/the-reporting-team-that-g_n_91981.html
In the months before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the reporters in the Knight Ridder Newspapers Washington D.C. bureau were virtually alone in their questioning of the Bush Administration's allegations of links between Saddam Hussein, weapons of mass destruction and international terrorism. The team of Knight Ridder reporters, led by Jonathan Landay, Warren Strobel, John Walcott and Joe Galloway, produced stories that now read like a prescient accounting of how the Bush Administration sought to sell the war to the American people. Walcott and Landay spoke with The Huffington Post about the fifth anniversary of the war. Knight Ridder Newspapers has since merged with McClatchy Newspapers. You can read the entire Knight Ridder and McClatchy archives of their Iraq intelligence reporting by clicking here ( http://www.mcclatchydc.com/reports/intelligence/ ) .
I was in the belly of the beast and I saw and heard the dirty business 1st hand ....
BTW that was when i found DU ...... and it really made me crazy for years and
kept waiting and waiting for the real story to come out and yet it never did and
our "liberal media" pushed the lie that w bush beat Kerry in Ohio even though the
exit polls showed w/out a doubt that Kerry won.
I testified at a public hearing and watched hundreds of people get up and speak about
votes being flipped, their registrations disapearing when the went to sign in at the
polls, hours long lines, voting machines going bad, phone hacks, "the mighty texas
strike force, and tons of other "glitches" and we had both national and local media
there and yet it only made pg. 10 for 2 paragraphs in the Columbus, Dispatch.
And don't get me started on w's "Prairie Chapel Ranch" which the media never pointed out
was a converted pig farm for photo opps and the cattle were rentals. 
