So wrong for so long, how the press, the pundits--and the president--failed on Iraq, Greg Mitchell ; foreword by Joseph L. Galloway
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So wrong for so long, how the press, the pundits--and the president--failed on Iraq, Greg Mitchell ; foreword by Joseph L. Galloway
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
So wrong for so long
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
180577226
Responsibility statement
Greg Mitchell ; foreword by Joseph L. Galloway
Sub title
how the press, the pundits--and the president--failed on Iraq
Table of 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 : Bush faces tough interviewer (at last) -- August. Post war apology falls short -- September. George 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 'massacre' -- 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 of media and Iraq -- 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