Bill Moyers is back! Slap that Post-It note on your forehead!
In a 90-minute exposé, Moyers returns to PBS with what Editor and Publisher calls a “devastating probe” of the media’s complicity in promoting the Iraq war.
“Buying the War” will air Wednesday, 25 April at 9 p.m. EDT.
In an E&P commentary (LINK), Greg Mitchell calls this thoroughly documented special “the most powerful indictment of the news media for falling down in its duties in the run-up to the war in Iraq.”
By skillfully using quotes and video clips, Moyers pressures a number of prominent media figures to admit the failure.
The program includes what Mitchell calls “numerous embarrassing examples of past statements by journalists and pundits that proved grossly misleading or wrong.”
According to Mitchell, Moyers points out those head cheerleaders for the war who refused to talk with him: Thomas Friedman of the New York Times; Bill Kristol of The Weekly Standard; Roger Ailes of Fox News; Charles Krauthammer of The Washington Post and Fox News; and Judith Miller and William Safire, formerly of The New York Times.
Worth catching – tomorrow night!
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