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| Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Mitchell, Greg, 1947- So wrong for so long. New York : Union Square Press/Sterling Pub., ©2008 (DLC) 2007045258 (OCoLC)180577226 |
| Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Greg Mitchell |
| ISBN: | 9781402774508 1402774508 |
| OCLC Number: | 829177730 |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xxi, 298 pages) |
| Contents: | 2003 -- January. on the war path -- My 9/11 story -- and Iraq's -- February. Ellsberg : have the media learned lessons of Vietnam? -- Powell conquers the media -- Schanberg hits the ground rules running -- March. Eleven questions we wish they'd asked -- Rummy meets McNamara -- April. Moyers : beginning of the end -- or just the beginning? -- May. Back in the daze of mission accomplished -- July. Media downplay U.S. death toll -- September. Why we are in Iraq -- On the second anniversary of 9/11 -- 2004 -- February. How we treat the injured -- March. Did you hear the one about the missing WMD? -- April. Good morning, Vietnam -- Coffin fit -- May. General Petraeus : "tell me how this ends" -- Why did the press ignore early report on Abu Ghraib? -- A rare call for withdrawal -- Rush Limbaugh, Abe Rosenthal, and me -- About Times : it finally accepts blame on WMD -- June. From Sadr city to Doonesbury -- July. The pluck of the Irish -- August. Post war apology falls short -- September. George W. Bush : the new "Baghdad Bob"? -- What a reporter in Iraq really thinks about the war -- November. From Fallujah to Landstuhl : what about the wounded? -- Shoot the messenger (literally) -- December. Rumsfeld caught with "armor" down -- 2005 -- January. Rathergate vs. weaponsgate -- Declare victory -- and pull out -- March. Reporters air grievances -- May. The great photo "cover-up" -- No Pat answers in the Tillman case -- July. Plame gets the "-gate" -- Why the Pentagon is blocking Abu Ghraib images -- August. Cindy Sheehan and the lost boys -- October. The scooter and Judy Soap Opera : "as the aspens turn" -- Times drops bombshell -- on Judy Miller -- Time to end Miller's high life -- November. Lunching with Rumsfeld -- Murtha speaks out : a "Cronkite moment"? -- 2006 -- January. What I did during the Jill Carroll abduction -- February . Oprah "Freys" George W. Bush -- March. Appointment in Samarra -- David Brooks plays Rummy -- On third anniversary : editorials dither while Iraq dies -- April. Even Stephen : Colbert roasts President -- and the press -- May. Neil Young and the restless -- A history of the "Friedman unit" -- June. Media slow to probe Haditha -- Dead and loving it : media air graphic images of Zarqawi -- The cost of killing civilians -- Bruce Springsteen vs. Ann Coulter -- September. A comma or a coma? -- October. Will the media finally count the dead? -- Bush among friends -- November. She killed herself -- after objecting to torture techniques -- Kayla and Alyssa : why one survived -- She outlived Iraq -- then killed herself at home -- December. The last soldier to die for a mistake -- Media leave audience hanging -- 2007 -- January. Surge protectors -- March. A Washington Post editorial as a Daily Show routine -- General Petraeus and a high-profile suicide -- Press covers Plame's wardrobe -- ignores cover-up -- April. A woman's dentures in the dirt -- Has "straight talk" by media derailed McCain? -- "Sorry we shot your kid, but here's $500" -- Moyers returns with "devastating" probe -- June. Better late than never : a major paper calls for pullout -- A rare look at one civilian casualty -- July. Haven't we been through this movie before? -- From hanging with George Clooney to hanging bad guys in Iraq -- August. Why aren't the media on a suicide watch? -- George Bush meets Graham Greene -- September. "Op-ed soldiers" die -- as Petraeus and Bush surge ahead -- October. Dying in the dark -- in the "non-combat" zone. |
| Responsibility: | Greg Mitchell ; foreword by Joseph L. Galloway ; preface by Bruce Springsteen. |
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"With the tragic war in Iraq dragging on, and the drumbeat for new conflicts growing louder, this is more than a five-year history of the biggest foreign policy debacle of our times--it's a cautionary tale that is as relevant as this morning's headlines. Greg Mitchell makes it clear that Iraq is a case study in bad judgment, from the misguided moves of an administration blinded by its zealotry to a complacent media that too often acted as an extension of the White House press office. Read it and weep; read it and get enraged; read it and make sure it doesn't happen again."--Arianna Huffington "Worthy of shelving alongside the best of the Iraq books."--"Kirkus""" "Greg Mitchell has given us a razor-sharp critique of how the media and the government connived in one of the great blunders of American foreign policy. Every aspiring journalist, every veteran, every pundit--and every citizen who cares about the difference between illusion and reality, propaganda and the truth, and looked to the press to help keep them separate--should read this book. Twice."--Bill Moyers"" "The profound failure of the American press with regard to the Iraq War may very well be the most significant political story of this generation. Greg Mitchell has established himself as one of our country's most perceptive media critics, and here he provides invaluable insight into how massive journalistic failures enabled the greatest strategic disaster in the nation's history."--Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com columnist and author of "A Tragic Legacy and How Would a Patriot Act? """ "Anyone who cares about the integrity of the American media should read this book. Greg Mitchell asks tough questions about the Iraq war that should have been asked long ago, in a poignant, patriotic, and thoughtful dissection of our war in Iraq. Mitchell names names and places blame on those who've blundered. Examining the most complex issue of our time, he connects the dots like no one else has."--Paul Rieckhoff, Executive Director, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America and author of "Chasing Ghosts" Read more...
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