Covering New War, In Shadow Of Old One

NYT's Public Editor Criticizes Paper's Iraq Coverage

THE lead-up to the war in Iraq in 2003 was not The Times’s finest hour. Some of the news reporting was flawed, driven by outside agendas and lacking in needed skepticism. Many Op-Ed columns and Times editorials promoted the idea of a war that turned out to be both unfounded and disastrous.

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