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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
If one source is the source of information for two intelligence agencies, and the one intelligence agency uses the other for confirmation, it creates an echo chamber. When newspaper sources are receiving this 'confirmed' intelligence and spreading it to their highly influential commentators and journalists, the echo chambers becomes a megaphone in a canyon. When this all happens in support of a policy position you'd like to take anyway ('securing middle eastern oil fields' or 'protecting american interests'), it's pretty easy, and convenient, to turn on the blinders and plunge ahead.
Of course, when you're paying someone millions of dollars a year to provide you with information about something, you're naturally going to keep receiving that 'information' regardless of how true it is...or ever was.
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See i agree with that 100%
But for all purposes and not just the reasons to go into Iraq. It's happening over and over again in almost every single big issue of our time. It's a real shame too ... hard to know what is a fact any more.
Take the recent Newsweek article on global warming that has been ripped to shreads for inaccuracies. Still being quoted as fact all over the place and because people have heard of Newsweek it's gospel.