Media's Failure On Iraq, Ailes Bio Trashed, Will Joy Tell All?

March 19, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Ten Years Later, The Media's Failure On Iraq Still Stings Last Monday, Howard Kurtz, the CNN and Daily Beast media analyst who is as reliable a barometer of mainstream wisdom as anyone, called the journalism industry's handling of the Iraq war "the media's greatest failure in modern times." Ten years after the first bombs fell on Baghdad, that gloomy assessment is a widely shared one. It pays, though, to remember just how wrong much of the mainstream media was about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction — and how hard it was to find voices of dissent in many major newspapers, magazines and television shows.  Continue reading... Iraq Media Failure Can Happen Again Will Joy Behar Tell All After 'The View'? Roger Ailes Biography Gets Trashed Petition Demands CNN Apologize For Rape Coverage Petition Demands CNN Apologize For Rape Coverage CNN Under Fire For Coverage Of Rape Trial NORMAN LEAR Let's Hear It for 'Bullshit!' If anybody can tell me that there are another two syllables that can express what lies just beneath the consciousness of most Americans at this minute -- and all Americans when they know what they are angry minute about, I want to know what that is. Continue reading... ERIC ALTERMAN Think Again: Real Reporting and Right-Wing Ideology Don't Mix There appears to be a genuine and unbridgeable conflict between reporting and right-wing ideology. You can see it in action nearly every day, just by briefly surfing the Internet. Continue reading... DAVID TERESHCHUK South by Southwest: More Than Money-making "South By," to use that rather flat, familial nickname habitués have given their annual festival here, South by Southwest, contrived to be in itself a somewhat flat event this year. Continue reading... DALAL MAWAD Has the World Grown Weary of Syria? On this, the second anniversary of the start of the Syrian uprising, perhaps no word summarizes the world's mood as well as this one: weary. Continue reading... ELLIOTT NEGIN Rex & Me: The Charlie Rose Show You Should Have Seen Last Friday PBS's Charlie Rose failed to grill ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson on his company's role in blocking efforts to address global warming, so Huffington Post contributor Elliott Negin intervened. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here.