tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post5758045087968014336..comments2024-03-28T10:22:25.136-04:00Comments on the daily howler: THE ROAD TO IRAQ: Matthews keeps it up!<b>bob somerby</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02963464534685954436noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-83868035952886169542013-03-26T19:59:11.593-04:002013-03-26T19:59:11.593-04:00Chris adequately condemns himself with his asinine...Chris adequately condemns himself with his asinine approval of "embedded" reporting- celebrating this truly Orwellian concept- most prevalent in the invasion period when Matthews was at his worst. Will "embedding" be thrown on the junk heap of truly ghastly ideas? Chris reminds us here that it is quite unlikely, the silence on this embarrassing aspect of the fiasco from everybody else confirms this. It took a LONG time for the press to fess up to the magnitude of the disaster, and then they just stopped talking about it.Greghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09288008924419574934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-64888786637000031072013-03-26T18:58:03.112-04:002013-03-26T18:58:03.112-04:00Dude, learn to read, please.Dude, learn to read, please.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-12415401728758567052013-03-26T16:27:00.714-04:002013-03-26T16:27:00.714-04:00Intellectually dishonest? The whole, entire point ...Intellectually dishonest? The whole, entire point of Farhi's piece was to let his company off the hook by asserting that they did not actually fail. TDH took the bait and said that unnamed folk may have overstated the media failure in the run-up to Iraq. The only objection TDH made to Farhi's whitewash of pre-war reporting concerned Al Gore. <br /><br />Intellectually dishonest? It's shocking you would refer readers back to one of the most embarrassing posts ever made at TDH.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-15987909406257128702013-03-26T13:48:41.160-04:002013-03-26T13:48:41.160-04:00Jeez, anon 11:56--talk about cherry picking quotes...Jeez, anon 11:56--talk about cherry picking quotes! You are implying that TDH gave some kind of wholesale approval of Farhi's piece. I invite other readers to go back to the actual post to see how intellectually dishonest anon is being.<br /><br />http://dailyhowler.blogspot.com/2013/03/how-poorly-did-press-corps-do-with-iraq.htmlcacambonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-4124978040145685882013-03-26T11:56:23.121-04:002013-03-26T11:56:23.121-04:00"Chris is inventing fake stories again"
... "Chris is inventing fake stories again"<br /><br />Fake stories? Like Farhi's story on how the reporting on Iraq wasn't really so bad...that fake? <br />Or as fake as TDH saying about Iraq "The reporting may not have been quite as bad as folk say." <br /><br />Does TDH wonder why this Greg Mitchell piece didn't make the Post:<br /><br />The Washington Post killed my assigned piece for its Outlook section this weekend which mainly covered media failures re: Iraq and the current refusal to come to grips with that (the subject of my latest book)--yet they ran this misleading, cherry-picking, piece by Paul Farhi claiming the media "didn't fail."<br /><br />http://gregmitchellwriter.blogspot.com/2013/03/that-piece-killed-by-post.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com