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WBUR / Eileen McNamara / Sep 12, 2021
“The Sunday talk shows that parroted unproven Bush Administration claims about the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The Pulitzer Prize-winning pundits who conflated the murderous regime of Saddam Hussein with the messianic mission of Osama bin Laden. The cable news executives who banned the use of photographs of the civilian dead in Afghanistan without pointed reminders of how many Americans died on 9/11 because it ‘seems perverse to focus too much on the casualties or hardship in Afghanistan.'”
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