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Judith Miller, a prominent journalist had great access to top U.S. government officials. The Judith Miller case focuses primarily on how the reporter deliberately used unnamed sources in her Weapon Mass Destruction (WMD) article. She quoted unnamed "American officials" and "American intelligence experts" who said the tubes were intended to be used to enrich nuclear material, and cited unnamed "Bush administration officials" who claimed that in recent months, Iraq had "stepped up its quest for nuclear weapons and has embarked on a worldwide hunt for materials to make an atomic bomb." Also, that “ Mr. Hussein's dogged insistence on pursuing his nuclear ambitions, along with what defectors described in interviews as Iraq's push to improve and expand Baghdad's chemical and biological arsenals, have brought Iraq and the United States to the brink of war." Miller concluded that the main reason the United State forces had failed to find the Weapons of Mass Destruction was because they were

Answer 1

I think the bigger issues with our current newsmedia are:

1) Most newspapers have cut their staffs for budgetary reasons. This is true especially in their investigative reporting areas. The result? Almost no investigative reporting like we saw in Watergate.

2) Partially as a result of the above, the newsmedia often simply reports quotes from sources (especially political and governmental) without doing any due diligence on the accuracy of these quotes. So all we get is the PR from the government and other political leaders.

The only hope I see is that the bloggers in the world will force the mainstream media to take on big questions. Keep your fingers crossed!

Answer 2

There was alot of talk about WMD's in Iraq because people had learned to get funding from the government by making up research projects. This meant that the intelligence that we intercepted sounded like lots of stuff was going on that really wasn't.

Answer 3

Non-existent.