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To: Alighieri who wrote (188252)	5/9/2004 7:51:48 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1578418

Simon Houpt: 'On the brink of the Cronkite moment' Posted on Sunday, May 09 @ 09:18:24 EDT It's beginning to feel like 1968, when the Vietnam War was first challenged by a till-then compliant U.S. media By Simon Houpt, Toronto Globe and Mail NEW YORK -- Supporters of the current Iraq war oppose comparisons to the American campaign in Vietnam, but there is one area of blossoming similarities: the U.S. media coverage. As with Vietnam, the mainstream American news media was initially compliant in its handling of the Iraq war. At a prewar press conference in March, 2003, television and print reporters submitted themselves to stage-managing by a White House intent on convincing the public of the necessity of invasion. There and elsewhere, they failed to strongly challenge administration estimates on the cost of the war, in both human and economic terms. In the months leading up to the U.S. offensive, reporters across the country, working from fact sheets distributed by the White House, published thousands of stories detailing the chemical and biological weapons of Saddam Hussein. Its disgusting......we believe are own propaganda or what the White House wants us to believe! ted