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So Wrong for so Long : : how the Press, the Pundits--And the President--Failed on Iraq

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2003, January. on the war path -- My 9/11 story and Iraq's -- February. Ellsberg : have the media learned lessons of Vietnam? -- Powell conquers the media -- Schanberg hits the ground rules running -- March. Eleven questions we wish they'd asked -- Rummy meets Mcnamara -- April. Moyers : beginning of the end or just the beginning? -- May. Back in the daze of 'mission accomplished' -- July. Media downplay U.S. death toll -- September. Why we are in Iraq -- On the second anniversary of 9/11 -- 2004, February. How we treat the injured -- March. Did you hear the one about the missing WMD? -- April. Good morning, Vietnam -- Coffin fit -- May. General Petraeus : 'tell me how this ends' -- Why did the press ignore early report on Abu Ghraib? -- A rare call for withdrawal -- Rush Limbaugh, Abe Rosenthal, and me -- About times : it finally accepts blame on WMD -- June. From Sadr city to Doonesbury -- July. The pluck of the Irish : Bush faces tough interviewer (at last) -- August. Post war apology falls short -- September. George Bush : the new 'Baghdad Bob?' -- What a reporter in Iraq really thinks about the war -- November. From Fallujah to Landstuhl : what about the wounded? -- Shoot the messenger (literally) -- December. Rumsfeld caught with 'armor' down -- 2005, January. Rathergate vs. weaponsgate -- Declare victory and pull out? -- March. Reporters air grievances -- May. The great photo 'cover-up' -- No Pat answers in the Tillman case -- July. Plame gets the 'gate' -- Why the Pentagon is blocking Abu Ghraib images -- August. Cindy Sheehan and the lost boys -- October. The scooter and Judy Soap Opera : 'as the aspens turn' -- Times drops bombshell on Judy Miller -- Time to end Miller's high life -- November. Lunching with Rumsfeld -- Murtha speaks out : a 'Cronkite moment'? -- 2006, January. What I did during the Jill Carroll abduction -- February . Oprah 'freys' George W. Bush -- March. Appointment in Samarra -- David Brooks plays Rummy -- On third anniversary : editorials dither while Iraq dies -- April. Even Stephen Colbert roasts President and the press -- May. Neil Young and the restless -- A history of the 'Friedman unit' -- June. Media slow to probe 'massacre' -- Dead and loving it : media air graphic images of Zarqawi -- The cost of killing civilians -- Bruce Springsteen vs. Ann Coulter -- September. A comma or a coma? -- October. Will the media finally count the dead? -- Bush among friends -- November. She killed herself after objecting to torture techniques -- Kayla and Alyssa : why one survived -- She outlived Iraq : then killed herself at home -- December. The last soldier to die for a mistake -- Media leave audience hanging -- 2007, January. Surge protectors -- March. A Washington Post editorial as a daily show routine -- General Petraeus and a high-profile suicide -- Press covers Plame's wardrobe ignores cover-up -- April. A woman's dentures in the dirt -- Has 'straight talk' by media derailed Mccain? -- "Sorry we shot your kid, but here's $500' -- Moyers returns with 'devastating' probe of media and Iraq -- June. Better late than never : a major paper calls for pullout -- A rare look at one civilian casualty -- July. Haven't we been through this movie before? -- From hanging with George Clooney to hanging bad guys in Iraq -- August. why aren't the media on a suicide watch? -- George Bush meets Graham Greene -- September. 'op-ed soldiers' die as Petraeus and Bush surge ahead.

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PUBLISHED
New York : Sterling Pub., 2008.
Year Published: 2008
Description: xxi, 298 p. ; 23 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781402756573
1402756577

SUBJECTS
Iraq War, 2003- -- Press coverage -- United States.
Iraq War, 2003- -- Mass media and the war.
Iraq War, 2003- -- Journalism, Military.
Freedom of speech.
United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-