John Pilger: From Yellow Journalism to China Bashing, the Media’s Enduring Role in Promoting War
(www.mintpressnews.com)https://www.mintpressnews.com/john-pilger-propganda-journalism-china-bashing-media-role-promoting-war/284509/"In 2003, I filmed an interview in Washington with Charles Lewis, the acclaimed investigative journalist. We discussed the invasion of Iraq a few months earlier. I asked him, ‘What if the constitutionally freest media in the world had seriously challenged George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld and investigated their claims instead of spreading what turned out to be crude propaganda?’
He replied. ‘If we journalists had done our job, there is a very, very good chance we would have not gone to war in Iraq.’"
