Mastodawn

RT @latimes
Abcarian: The 20th anniversary of the Iraq war also marks a colossal failure of the mainstream media (via @latimesopinion) https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-03-19/iraq-war-20th-anniversary-wmd-mainstream-media-knight-ridder-george-bush

President Bush and his war-hungry administration ginned up an Iraqi nuclear threat and got most of the American media to play ball

Los Angeles Times

@froomkin It's only a failure if this wasn't your intention all along, and I think we know that it was

Did a short, cranky blog post on how thin even the crickets are on the front pages of the Times and Post today.

Not a single story about Iraq - a couple of mentions of "20 years later" for American veterans, how it affected America.

But Iraq? What's that? Some sort of country? Certainly zero mea-culpas.

The Guardian saved me from wondering if my calendar was broken.