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pposed to american military force is so persuasive after all if there is one lesson that we learned in the run up to the invasion of iraq it is that the american media is so very very hostile to the military and reflexively opposed to all assertions of u s military force that was why they unquestioningly printed on their front pages and recited on their news broadcasts every single claim that emanated from the pentagon and it is also why they cheered on as loudly and enthusiastically as anyone else the president s glorious march to war how eager must moran be to win the right s approval if in 2005 he could make the transparently ludicrous claim that his fellow journalists hate the military and hate the use of u s military force manifestly moran just like halperin is eager to show that he is pro military and was desperate to convince hewitt that he is not one of those dirty anti american subversive liberals to achieve that goal moran paraded in front of hewitt and smeared his fellow journalists as being deep ly anti military and claimed that they have a dangerous hostility to american projection of power around the world identically halperin begged hewitt not to lump him in with people in his business who are liberally biased and don t seem to care about it it stands to reason that this glaring need of moran s to please the hugh hewitts of the world and to distinguish himself from the leftist military hating radicals who dominate the american media will affect the news coverage choices he makes echoing the most strident and biased scandal mongering of the right wing blogosphere as moran did this week is consistent with that personal agenda by joining in the right wing lynch mob this week does john edwards condone hate speech moran got what he obviously craves a pat on the head from michelle malkin and universal praise from the right wing fanatics driving that story in the same interview hewitt also asked moran if he reads blogs and moran immediately declared i always start out at instapundit i bet he does next came i take a look at lgf he then tacked on daily kos and josh marshall as blogs he looks at and then proudly added my brother has a blog right wing nut house most revealing of all was this exchange hh what s your guess about the percentage of the white house press corps that voted for kerry tm oh very high very very high hh who d you vote for tm well that s a secret ballot isn t it hh well it is i m just asking though tm i d prefer not to answer that hh i know you would but tm it might surprise you but i d prefer not to so after first assuring hewitt that the vast majority of white house journalists were voting for kerry moran coyly slips in that while he won t expressly say for whom he voted it might surprise you gee i really wonder what he was trying to convey to hewitt with that answer the hewitt interview was nothing new ron brynaert previously examined why moran was long the bush administration s most favored white house correspondent with a history of questions that made jeff gannon look like a tough white house interrogator what moran did with hewitt is exactly the same thing halperin did halperin also refused to expressly say whether he was a conservative or not but kept sending transparent signals that by design left no doubt halperin acknowledging the liberal bias that exists in the old media as john harris and i do in the way to win taking the white house in 2008 doesn t necessarily prove that i am not liberal but i would think you would be open to giving me the benefit of the doubt and as for your repeated insistence that you could reach no other conclusion but one that says that i am very liberal i m sure if you think it over you will reconsider the influence of the mark halperin syndrome on our media cannot be overstated there is a pervasive desire on the part of many national journalists to prove to the right wing noise machine that they are not like their horrible leftist america hating anti military journalistic colleagues which the right has so successfully demonized that syndrome was unquestionably a significant factor influencing the pre iraq war parade of liberal pundits and journalists putting on such a public display of how serious and thoughtful and patriotic and pro military they were by lending support to the president s war claims or as in the case of the joe kleins suppressing their reservations due to a fear of being depicted as one of the anti military subversives in the press and of course some of them simply subscribe to the neoconservative ideological agenda most troublingly one sees this same dynamic over and over not quite as universally but still pervasively when it comes to iran the michael gordon article from yesterday is so alarming because it stems from this same dangerous and sickly dynamic journalists eager to prove to rush limbaugh and hugh hewitt and bill kristol that they are on the right side by mindlessly accepting any claims from the military and refusing to examine the urgent questions raised by our increasingly war seeking posture towards iran such as who are the people pushing for this war how long have they advocated it what are their motives and why are war preventing measures such as diplomacy being so vigilantly avoided those are questions which would be asked only by those journalists plagued by to use terry moran s words a deep anti military bias and the dangerous belief that american projection of power around the world must be wrong by contrast the mark halperins and terry morans and michael gordons show what good patriotic boys and girls they are by dutifully passing along what they are told by the military and the president and the government without questioning any of it update the associated press reports today the u s military has detected a significant increase in the number of sophisticated roadside bombs in iraq and believes that orders to send components for them came from the highest levels of the iranian government a senior intelligence officer said sunday i don t understand the basis for the somewhat widespread doubt about the fact that the administration is seeking military confrontation with iran that seems beyond dispute at this point and a significant factor determining the outcome of those efforts will be how the american press reports on the claims about iran coming from the administration and its war hungry allies update ii cernig documents the fundamental deficiencies in the case made by an anonymous military official today that the iranian government at the highest levels is ordering that shiite militias be supplied with sophisticated weaponry for use against u s forces also what possible justification is there for according anonymity to the bush officials who are making these claims the associated press report says that the official brief ed reporters on condition sic that he not be further identified that is a condition that the media ought not accept these claims are not from whistle blowers or ones which otherwise require anonymity they are nothing more than the official assertions of the bush administration to justify its antagonistic posture towards iran there is no simply justification for printing articles like this a that grant anonymity to the officials disseminating official government claims and b without including the ample evidence undermining those claims have the media learned absolutely nothing from iraq it really seems that way posted by glenn greenwald 10 21 am saturday february 10 2007 the ny times returns to pre iraq war journalism over the past few weeks the los angeles times has published several detailed and well documented articles casting serious doubt on the administration s claims that iran is fueling the iraqi insurgency with weapons a couple of months ago the washington post published a very well researched article reporting that extensive searches by british military brigades in southern iraq specifically in the areas where such weapons would almost certainly be transported and maintained have turned up nothing it seemed as though the media was treating the war inflaming claims of bush officials against iran much more skeptically refusing to simply pass along accusations without first conducting an investigation to determine if those claims were true but today the new york times does precisely the opposite it has published a lengthy prominent front page article by michael gordon that does nothing literally but mindlessly recite administration claims about iran s weapons supplying activities without the slightest questioning investigation or presentation of ample counter evidence the entire article is nothing more than one accusatory claim about iran after the next all emanating from the mouths of anonymous military and intelligence officials without the slightest verified evidence and gordon just mindlessly repeats what he has been told in one provocative paragraph after the next start with the headline deadliest bomb in iraq is made by iran u s says that is a proposition that is extremely inflammatory it suggests that iranians bear responsibility for attacks on u s troops in iraq even though that is a claim for which almost no evidence has been presented and which is very much in dispute why should that be the basis for a prominent headline when gordon s sole basis for it are the uncorroborated assertions of the bush administration the very first paragraph following that headline is the most inflammatory the most lethal weapon directed against american troops in iraq is an explosive packed cylinder that united states intelligence asserts is being supplied by iran is that extremely provocative claim even true gordon never says and he does not really appear to care he is in pravda spokesman mode throughout the entire article offering himself up as a megaphone for administration assertions without the slightest amount of scrutiny investigation or opposing views what is the basis for the entire article gordon summarizes it this way the assertion of an iranian role in supplying the device to shiite militias reflects broad agreement among american intelligence agencies although officials acknowledge that the picture is not entirely complete in interviews civilian and military officials from a broad range of government agencies provided specific details to support what until now has been a more generally worded claim in a new national intelligence estimate that iran is providing lethal support to shiite militants in iraq every one of gordon s sources are officials in the bush administration and all of them are completely anonymous so one has no way to assess their interest perspective bias or independence and gordon himself does not offer the slightest information to enable the reader to make such determinations and he himself appears blissfully uninterested in any of that this is completely irresponsible journalism the latest indications including new revelations over the last few days lend strong support to the suspicion that the bush administration is intensifying its preparations for a military confrontation with iran the emotional and psychological impact of gordon s story is glaringly obvious if iranians are purposely supplying shiite militias with the most lethal weapon directed against american troops that obviously will have the effect of heightening anger towards iranians among americans and leading them to believe that war against iran is necessary because they are killing our troops gordon recognizes the high stakes of his story but naively passes this along any assertion of an iranian contribution to attacks on americans in iraq is both politically and diplomatically volatile the officials said they were willing to discuss the issue to respond to what they described as an increasingly worrisome threat to american forces in iraq and were not trying to lay the basis for an american attack on iran no perish the thought but why are these sources granted anonymity all they are doing is passing along the standard official line of the bush administration supposedly revealing the most inflammatory conclusions that the administration will unveil in just a few days what possible purpose is served by shrouding these sources in anonymity in order to enable them to pass along these controversial claims with the appearance that gordon has scored some sort of scoop by provoking candid officials to speak off the record this is just bush administration propaganda dressed up as a leak to induce gordon and the nyt to excitedly publish this on their front page judy miller anyone speaking of judy miller the nyt today gives us one paragraph after the next like this one the link that american intelligence has drawn to iran is based on a number of factors including an analysis of captured devices examination of debris after attacks and intelligence on training of shiite militants in iran and in iraq by the iranian revolutionary guard and by hezbollah militants believed to be working at the behest of tehran the information includes interrogation reports from the raids indicating that money and weapons components are being brought into iraq from across the iranian border in vehicles that travel at night one of the detainees has identified an iranian operative as having supplied two of the bombs the border crossing at mehran is identified as a major crossing point for the smuggling of money and weapons for shiite militants according to the intelligence has gordon reviewed any of those devices seen any of the debris or the reports describing them spoken to independent experts about the accuracy of the administration s claims or evaluated the credibility of the original sources for all of this alleged intelligence if he has done any of that he does not share any of those assessments in his article he is simply echoing what he has been told without regard to its persuasive qualities in fact with the exception of one cursory note buried in the middle that the iranian government denies supplying shiite militias with weapons every paragraph in the article every one simply echoes accusations by military and other bush officials that iran is behind the attacks on u s troops in iraq if the white house were to prepare one of its famous position papers setting forth its case against iran it would look exactly like the article gordon and the nyt just published on behalf of the administration what is the point of this sort of article why would the new york times just offer itself up again as a mindless vessel for what are clearly war seeking accusations by the administration have they learned nothing and all of this is particularly inexcusable in light of the ample analysis and evidence already published by the la times and washington post among others which raise serious questions about the reliability of the administration s accusations against iran there is no excuse whatsoever for 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