{"id":2902,"date":"2008-02-11T20:47:46","date_gmt":"2008-02-12T02:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2902"},"modified":"2008-02-11T20:47:46","modified_gmt":"2008-02-12T02:47:46","slug":"5-years-ago-when-the-press-helped-colin-powell-sell-the-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2902","title":{"rendered":"5 Years Ago: When the Press Helped Colin Powell Sell the War"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Greg Mitchell, Editor and Publisher, 9 February 2008<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

NEW YORK<\/strong> On February 3, 2003, a New York Times story was topped with: \u201cAll Aboard: America\u2019s War Train is Leaving the Station.\u201d Naturally, the world\u2014and the media commentators\u2014anxiously awaited Secretary of State Colin Powell\u2019s appearance at the United Nations on February 5, when he was expected to make the administration\u2019s case for war before a skeptical body.<\/p>\n

While most pundits were already sold on the invasion, polls showed that the public was divided\u2014or simply misinformed or confused. So the performance of the much-respected and moderate Powell could go a long way to greasing the skids for war.<\/p>\n

In the week that followed, few pundits felt that they needed to do much fact-checking before declaring that Powell had, indeed, made his case. The invasion came six weeks later. Several months after that, it became clear that much of Powell’s presentation was based on wrong or cooked intelligence, and he and his aides have expressed varying degrees of regret about it since.<\/p>\n

[Read the article<\/a>] <\/strong><\/p>\n

On a related note – from Mitchell’s blog – Pressing Issues<\/em>:<\/p>\n

‘NYT’ clears Obama of massive drug use — puts it on the front page<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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