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Tuesday, March 11, 2008 12:00 AM

How the press failed on Iraq

A hard look back at the past five years -- with all its death and destruction and missteps -- reveals that the American media has been sleepwalking through the war.
By Greg Mitchell

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    the Iraq war and the media

    When you "embed" a journalist with the troops you guarantee that he will parrot what the troops tell him to write.

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