1.0 link 60665 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sirota/no-pattern-of-improvement_b_60665.html You may recall that in the run-up to the Iraq invasion, big-time reporters like the New York Times' Elisabeth Bumiller justified the media's refusal to ask substantive questions challenging pre-war assertions by saying that she and her fellow Beltway reporters just felt the need to be "very deferential" because it was too "frightening to stand up there [and] ask the president of the United States a question when the country's about to go to war" and really, "no one...

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