now he tells us - NYT public editor on media cheerleading for war

[cybildisobedience]

Daneil Okrent, former public editor for the NY Times, tells a Williams College this:

“The general rolling over on the part of the American press allowed the war to happen. I do believe that is true, and I think the press is extremely chastened by that. I think we all know how bad it was.”

Too bad he didn't realize it then, back when we were all screaming about it and dismissed as lunatics and terrorists.
More at this link:

http://www.mediagiraffe.org/artman/publish/article_438.shtml

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Boy, is that a misleading headline!

I thought it meant that Okrent was on TV advocating we go into Iran or something.

[Surya Gayatri]

11. I had exactly the same reaction--

had to read it 3 times to get it straight! Still, too little, too late...SG

[autorank]

2. This is the guy who took 5 weeks off during the 2004 election. A tool!

I just can't stand him. He's such a hypocrite. He's probably trying to cover his ass when all the filthy detailsi of the NYT publichser and editor's betrayal of America comes out.

We'll see but Okrent is a total loser.

[FreedomAngel82]

4. No doubt

Blaming "the press" makes it sounds like how the republicans do with the Abramoff deal. "Everyone was a part of it!"

[mac56]

8. That's a disappointment.

I only know him from his baseball writing. Sorry to hear he's such a tool in real life.

Similar to James Lileks, I guess. Entertaining writer, but a RW weasel.

[BuyingThyme]

3. They don't know it now.

The NYT is still providing cover for Bush's illegal spying.

[Protagoras]

5. 30K-100K dead...but thats ok because the press is "chastened"

Darn sorry about yer family, your friends, your children, and your country.

Sorry about them thousands of soldiers who are dead.

Sorry about the thousands of injured

Sorry about the destruction of our international credibility.

Sorry about the undermining of our basic constitutional rights.

There, we've apologized can we move on now?

Bite me.

[blm]

6. And they didn't bother to stop covering for Bushboy before the election

and THAT is a matter of record, too.

Imagine, withholding the NSA wiretapping - a crime against the Constitution - to protect a president during an election year.

[RandomKoolzip]

7. The New York Times: House organ of the Vichies

[OneBlueSky]

9. "the press is extremely chastened by that" . . .

coulda fooled me . . .

[Ksec]

10. So now theyre cheerleading for an Iran war?

[FloridaPat]

12. When where & how were they "chastened"? I missed it.

[girl gone mad]

13. They didn't just roll over.

Like you said, they were actively cheering for the war. I remember stories about the innate beauty of bombings and the romance of war. They went out of their way to sell war to the people. Even so, the people never bought it. Rarely reported was the statistic that the majority of the population thought we shouldn't invade Iraq.