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Unfortunately, McCaffrey is representative of the way that the entire Iraq War was sold and conducted -- ie We're All Embeds Now! It almost makes one sympathetic to Fox News for its brazen behavior and slogan, simply because it is brazen. The other networks have been more covert, professing to simply report the news while advancing the same central myth perpetrated by the Bush Administration, we know what's best for you people and that's what we'll give you. It's not that they don't understand the notion of a conflict of interest; it's that they assume there can't possibly be one, because we are all on the "same side." That misplaced notion of loyalty not only fueled the war, but has tainted almost every aspect of mainstream journalism. Unless they are explicitly political, so-called experts are introduced to the public with little regard as to their natural biases. NBC is not only defending McCaffrey, it is defending its own laziness and lack of accountability to the public.
