Duplicity, Again!

Via Susie at Suburban Guerrilla :

The New York Times’ Michael Gordon and Bushco. Glenn Greenwald:

On Saturday, The New York Times published a front page story by Gordon which did nothing other than mindlessly convey highly provocative (and completely unproven) claims by anonymous Bush officials that “the most lethal weapon directed against American troops in Iran is an explosive-packed cylinder that United States intelligence asserts is being supplied by Iran.”

As I documented on Saturday (as did Juan Cole and others), Gordon’s article replicated every mistake made by the media which enabled the administration to deceive the country with respect to the “threat” posed by Iraq — specifically, it granted anonymity to Bush officials to make highly dubious, war-inflaming claims, and then simply passed those claims along on the front page with no scrutiny or investigation, and without any mention of the ample evidence which undermines those claims.

Go read the rest for details on how Gordon derides his critics for not understanding journalism… Boy, and people think I’m crazy for saying the Bushies have resurrected Operation Mockingbird!

I don’t know about you but I am getting so tired of this shit!