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Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan
Which leads me to the complex question of the media--who in hindsight were ALL guilty of the worst kind of yellow journalism. CNN, CBS, NBC, Fox, etc. etc.--all were equally guilty of just jumping on the bandwagon and going along with a lead up to a war that in hindsight looks a bit foolish.
Fox's problem has been that since then they've STILL failed to ask the questions that other media outlets are beginning to ask--and as the Bush admin's talking points begin to seem ever more distant from reality, Fox looks even sillier for continually repeating them as if they came from a credible source. They're still on the bandwagon, still spouting that same yellow journalism--and it's getting embarrassing, whatever your political stripe may be.
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Great points, both in the culpability of almost all media outlets and of Fox's ongoing avoidance of those questions. In many ways I think they're using the threat of Iran as a distracting talking point as a way of avoiding asking those questions.
But I think that the difference between what went on before Iraq and what's going on right now is that right now it tends to be just Fox: you don't hear the same imflammatory rhetoric on other networks for the most part (at least not on CNN); experts are brought in on either side of the debate, which is decidedly different than before Iraq. Iran is a red-herring. Their threat to the US is marginal, and the likelihood of the US escalating the situation to a war isn`t that great, either. You hear some strong rhetoric from government mouthpieces, but at the same time, the government has quietly opened up discussions with Iran for the first time in ages.