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Media cozies up to the government; nationalism has replaced professionalism in our press.(Columns)

From: National Catholic Reporter  |  Date: 12/10/2004  |  Author: McCarthy, Colman

"Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed." --I.F Stone

Well into the second year of the United States invasion of Iraq, a war that sees the world's mightiest military unable to defeat a ragtag band of street fighters, the corporate wing of the American media that heartily endorsed the war as it began is now saying it failed the public.

"We didn't ask the right questions hard enough or long enough," says Dan Rather of CBS News. Michael Getler, ...

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