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I’m just finishing up watching the first episode of Bill Moyers Journal on PBS. The episode is called Buying the War and it’s about media complicity in the road to the Iraq war. It’s an amazing documentary, and I really hope you take some time to watch it. The link above has full video for free.

Watching this is sorta like watching a Star Wars prequel. The whole time you know something terrible is going to happen.

It reminds me a lot of an argument I had with Kym Murphy a long while ago (not an angry argument, more like a debate), where I claimed the average newspaper was more liberal than the average American, but she argued that the issue was more complex: a problem of complicity between the government and media. In retrospect, she was completely right, unfortunately.

I especially liked this quote from Moyers (from a radio interview):
“It’s not [journalists'] responsibility to tell both sides of a story, it’s their job to say what’s actually happening.”