Re:DuckDuckGo “down-rank sites associated with Russian disin...
by lern_too_spel on Thursday March 10, 2022 @11:21PM
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I was alive and watching the news, and you're completely wrong about TV news and the NY Times reporting, which freely admitted that Iraq didn't have a chemical weapons program (except for Fox News, which kept reporting that this time we found it without ever reporting that the last time wasn't what they suggested). The only thing that took a while was the apology for believing Bush administration sources in the run-up to the war.
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Re:DuckDuckGo “down-rank sites associated with Russian disin...
by jessaustin on Friday March 11, 2022 @09:49AM
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The simple way to show that anyone on TV (besides e.g. "Democracy Now") got it right by a particular date would be to link to a recording or transcript of an example.
Re:DuckDuckGo “down-rank sites associated with Russian disin...
by lern_too_spel on Friday March 11, 2022 @12:45PM
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Simple. Every single news agency said as much. Here's one from two months after Baghdad was captured. http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/06/09/wmd.controversy/in...
Here's the NY Times less than a month into the invasion noting that no active chemical weapons program had been found and that the administration's words seemed to be shifting about whether they believed it would ever be found: https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/05/world/a-nation-at-war-ill...
Meanwhile, those who watched Fox News were never told that the earlier finds were not ongoing chemical weapons programs: https://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/poll-republicans-wmds...