Frank Foer has a devastating piece in the latest New Republic. I never knew that most major Western journalists work in the same building as Saddam’s Ministry of Information. Then there’s this:
“There’s a quid pro quo for being there,” says Peter Arnett, who worked the Iraq beat for CNN for a decade. “You go in and they control what you do. … So you have no option other than to report the opinion of the government of Iraq.” In other words, the Western media’s presence in the Ministry of Information describes more than just a physical reality.
Must-read.
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