"In a 2004 Guardian Op-Ed on the role played by the western media in enabling [the invasion of Iraq], David Edwards and David Cromwell traced the last century’s structural history of journalism in order to argue that mindlessly conveying government claims is no longer an abandonment of the purpose of modern journalism but rather a core fulfillment of it."
— The Brookings Institution demands servile journalism | Glenn Greenwald (via theamericanbear)
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