Critics See Echoes of Iraq as Corporate Media Carries Water for Unlawful Act of War Against Venezuela | Common Dreams

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Critics See Echoes of Iraq as Corporate Media Carries Water for Unlawful Act of War Against Venezuela | Common Dreams (1of2) '..critics say it’s part of a different tradition: One in which corporate media outlets act as dutiful stenographers for the US military establishment to help legitimize lawless, imperialist military adventures.' 'Prior to this weekend, the leading example of this deference was seen during the lead-up to then-President George W. Bush’s war in Iraq, where legacy media outlets had been criticized for parroting the government’s claims that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, which turned out to be false.  In 2023, the 20-year anniversary of the invasion, which led to the deaths of an estimated half a million people, Adam Johnson wrote for the Real News Network that many of the journalists who pushed the lies that led to war—including the Atlantic’s now-editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, the marquee MS NOW (formerly MSNBC) morning host Joe Scarborough, and New York nagazine and Atlantic contributor Jonathan Chait—never suffered career consequences for helping to midwife a historic foreign policy crime, and have since seen their careers blossom.' 'However, since Trump’s invasion of Venezuela on Saturday, many media outlets have continued to adopt the dubious framing that US law, which has remained the Trump administration’s sole justification for its kidnapping of Maduro—whom the Department of Justice indicted for alleged drug trafficking—somehow applies across borders and entitles the US to take over the country.'

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