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To: KonKilo who wrote (81036)	3/10/2003 11:01:32 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

News media abdicate role in Iraq war By James O. Goldsborough* Columnist THE SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE March 10, 2003 signonsandiego.com <<...Editor & Publisher, the professional weekly, devotes its latest issue to the subject of the press and the Iraq war. "Now that the Super Bowl and Golden Globes are over," it begins, "Americans are finally ready to debate an attack on Iraq." The press' role in the Bush administration's march to war has not been glorious. No Golden Globes for us, whatever they are. Yet even E&P's analysis misses the central point we presumably learned in Vietnam: that in war as in everything else the press' role is to question, question, question. That role is especially important for Bush's war, which is war against a nation that has not attacked us. Bush repeats ad nauseum that "Iraq is a threat," but offers no evidence. With his policy of "pre-emptive" war, he doesn't need evidence, but imagine that every nation adopted such a policy. Or imagine that Bush had come to power during the Cold War. E&P blames the public's confusion in part on "officials planning the war, who have not fully explained the reasons for it," but adds that U.S. newspapers deserve "no small measure" of blame for the confusion...>> ___________________________________________ *James O. Goldsborough is foreign affairs columnist for The San Diego Union-Tribune and a member of the newspaper's editorial board, specializing in international issues. Goldsborough spent 15 years in Europe as a correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, the International Herald Tribune and Newsweek Magazine. He is a former Edward R. Murrow Fellow at the Council on Foreign relations and a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment. He is the author of Rebel Europe: Living with a Changing Continent, and of numerous articles on foreign affairs for national publications. Goldsborough can be reached via e-mail at jim.goldsborough@uniontrib.com.