'Devastating' Moyers Probe of Press and Iraq Coming

Editor & Publisher's Greg Mitchell got an advanced look atBill Moyer's "Buying the War," a 90-minute PBS broadcast that Mitchell calls the "most powerful indictment of the news media for falling down in its duties in the run-up to the war in Iraq."

To be broadcast next Wednesday, the show marks the return of "Bill Moyers Journal."

"While much of the evidence of the media's role as cheerleaders for the war presented here is not new," Mitchell writes, "it is skillfully assembled, with many fresh quotes from interviews (with the likes of Tim Russert and Walter Pincus) along with numerous embarrassing examples of past statements by journalists and pundits that proved grossly misleading or wrong. Several prominent media figures, prodded by Moyers, admit the media failed miserably, though few take personal responsibility."

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Video excerpt from "Buying the War."
Bill Moyers Journal website.