War Coverage

What is it about the military that turns normally thoughtful journalists into war pornographers? A reporter who would otherwise make it through the day sober spends a little time with the military and loses himself in ever more dramatic language.

The next time you hear about another round of layoffs at a TV news division, the closing of a bureau, the decision not to cover a foreign story with full force, remember this week of silliness in April.

Despite the posthumous praise for Cronkite's February 1968 telecast that dubbed the war "a stalemate," the facts show that the broadcast came only after Cronkite's protracted support for the war.

Given how TV networks danced to the White House tune in the first years of W's reign, it's fitting that it took the words of a longtime Bush insider to force their self-examination over Iraq.

On March 20, 2003, US and British forces invaded Iraq in what they said was a mission to rid Iraq of weapons of mass destruction. 21 days later, the ...