"Huddled in one room were the three musketeers of nooze:"

[donsu]

David Westin, Neal Shapiro, Andrew Heyward

http://www.newsdissector.org/weblog/

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but the three network news presidents were together again on the campus of Stanford University yesterday, the very institution that gave us Condi Rice, to admit that, yes, they did us wrong.

'We regret to inform you we didn't inform you,' was the media message. How sweet it is to hear a trickle of truth.

Huddled in one room were the three musketeers of nooze: David Westin, the corporate lawyer who runs Disney/ABC's News Division and Neal Shapiro of General Electric Co.'s NBC News and Andrew Heyward of Viacom Inc.'s CBS News, Perhaps in response to a question, they were asked about their coverage of Iraq. Now that the NY Times and Washington Post have done mea-culpas, what about their electronic brethren?

The AP reporter who was there did not devote much space to their response on the war but did note: "the three said that, in retrospect, they should have more aggressively questioned the Bush administration's grounds for invading Iraq in the spring of 2003.

"Simply stated, we let down the American people on weapons of mass destruction, and I sincerely regret that," Westin said.

They let us down! They regret it. After l00,000 civilians died, they are sorry. But only, let us be clear, for the coverage of WMDS when they allowed only a handful of war critics on the air. They don't regret the war of the war itself. Nor their deference to the Busheviks, Nor their lack of election follow-up. They certainly don't regret their turning massacres into militainment or their current "coverage" of the crimes in Fallujah.
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yeah, david, neal and andrew; a kick in your crotch for your sorryfullness

[Blue_Tires]

1. i work in the (print) media

a lot of journos sold their souls out for the chance to cover a war--ironically, to 'win' another kind of war (TV ratings)