Jen SorensenReflecting on the start of the Iraq War 20 years later. I cannot overstate how appallingly one-sided the news coverage was in the US during the buildup to the invasion.
Roy Brander🍁Before Pat Donahue was fired, they first had the rule that he must have two pro-war guests on for every anti-war. *AND* Donahue himself counted as an anti-war "guest". So he had to have five guests crowd the stage, four of them pro-war, to interview a single anti-war voice.
The funnier MSNBC story is the screwup: they hired Jesse Ventura on the obvious assumption he'd be pro-war. When he wasn't, they paid him out $3M over 3 years to remain silent and off-the-air.
MSNBC!!