Eric Boehlert, senior fellow at Media Matters for America and author of Lapdogs: How The Press Rolled Over for Bush, discusses the Pentagon’s army of retired generals sent out to disseminate the war party’s propaganda, how the corporate media failed to promote alternative viewpoints to the invasion, the power and danger of 'groupthink,' and John McCain’s free-ride from the media.
09/05/07 – Eric Boehlert – The Scott Horton Show
Eric Boehlert, senior fellow at Media Matters for America and author of Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush, discusses the American TV and print media's abandonment of the Iraq war story despite the fact that it remains the topic Americans are most interested in.
