Thomas Slams WH Press: "I Ask Myself Every Day Why The Media Have Become So Complacent, Complicit And Gullible"...

Thomas Slams WH Press: "I Ask Myself Every Day Why The Media Have Become So Complacent, Complicit And Gullible"...

White House legend Helen Thomas, the longtime United Press International reporter who is now a syndicated columnist for Hearst, takes aim at her colleagues in a new book, saying that when it came to questioning President Bush in the weeks before the Iraq war, they were more lapdogs than watchdogs.

"I ask myself every day why the media have become so complacent, complicit and gullible," Thomas writes in Watchdogs of Democracy? (Scribner, $25), due in bookstores this week. "It all comes down to the 9/11 terrorist attacks that led to fear among reporters of being considered 'unpatriotic' or 'un-American.' "

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