Comments on: Take My Intelligence Committee, PLEASE http://blog.psaonline.org/2006/08/30/take-my-intelligence-committee-please/ Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:29:47 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Joe Roeber http://blog.psaonline.org/2006/08/30/take-my-intelligence-committee-please/comment-page-1/#comment-785 Joe Roeber Thu, 31 Aug 2006 06:21:43 +0000 http://blog.psaonline.org/2006/08/30/take-my-intelligence-committee-please/#comment-785 Gary Sick says "it deserves to be recognised for what it is." But will it be? The failures in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq were not solely due to overbearing ideologues, brushing facts aside in the headlong rush to a foregone conclusion. They were also those of journalists too supine and timid - and lazy - to examine the case being puffed by the Administration. (This abject failure still baffles me. American journalism has a great tradition of hard work and rigour. What happened to it?) You have made a good case, David, for treating the Hoekstra report with reservation, even for altogether dismissing it. But you are writing for a small and self-selected audience. It is up to journalists writing and broadcasting in mainstream media to persuade the American public that they are being conned again. Will it happen? I hope, I hope... but somehow I doubt it. Joe Roeber Gary Sick says “it deserves to be recognised for what it is.” But will it be? The failures in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq were not solely due to overbearing ideologues, brushing facts aside in the headlong rush to a foregone conclusion. They were also those of journalists too supine and timid – and lazy – to examine the case being puffed by the Administration. (This abject failure still baffles me. American journalism has a great tradition of hard work and rigour. What happened to it?) You have made a good case, David, for treating the Hoekstra report with reservation, even for altogether dismissing it. But you are writing for a small and self-selected audience. It is up to journalists writing and broadcasting in mainstream media to persuade the American public that they are being conned again. Will it happen? I hope, I hope… but somehow I doubt it.

Joe Roeber

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