Robert Scheer: News Outlets ‘Wholesale Consume’ Propaganda (Video)
Truthdig's editor in chief points to the lies that were made and accepted before the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
Editor’s note: The following video is a clip from a 19-part series filmed at a Truthdig and KPFK co-sponsored event in Los Angeles recently. The discussion features Oliver Stone, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter and director, and Robert Scheer, Truthdig’s editor in chief. The two talk about “The Putin Interviews,” a new Showtime series by Stone, as well as the published transcript, for which Scheer wrote the foreword. We are publishing one video per day. This is the 10th installment.
Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer questions the trust the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times put in government information after the lies about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction caused irreparable damage to journalism.
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