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We’re watching Shock and Awe movie (Knight Ridder story), again. At the time, I haven’t realized that the White House fed the NYT stories which they printed verbatim. I had my doubts but I couldn’t possibly know that. The coverage of Iraq war lies was when I stopped idealizing US. It was a hard fall

this white house actively treats a large swath of americans as disloyal and outside the political community and it doesn’t merit so much as a peep from the political press

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This is a very good paragraph.

From "The Last Days of the Pentagon Press Corps" in The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

By Nancy A. Youssef

Back when I was wire editor at one of Knight Ridder's outposts, I always looked forward to Nancy Youssef's dispatches. If you need proof that she's a master of her craft, read this.

Knight Ridder winning a Pulitzer for shaking the trees and ignoring the press briefings during the Iraq War didn’t move that needle, but maybe they’ll benefit from personal experience of what kinds of stories you can get without relying on access to leadership and their comms team.

#Iraq Oct 5 2002 Knight Ridder article quoted several intelligence officers that Bush admin ignored dissenting
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Knight Ridder ceased to exist in 2006. We were a comparatively responsible company that was alone in exposing the Bush administration's lies leading up to the second Iraq war.

#Iraq Sep 13 2002 US official told Knight Ridder Iraq not close to building a nuclear bomb musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/iraqs-wmd-...

What's the best movie about journalism where they get all the little procedural details correct?

The Paper and The Post are quite good in that respect

I know people usually answer All the President's Men or Spotlight, but i'm wondering if there are some less well known ones that I'm missing

I'm sure this won't be new to you, but Shattered Glass did well for political mags

Shock and Awe (2007) is also very good in this regard. Details the Knight Ridder journalists saw through the Bush admins lies in the lead up to the Iraq invasion.

Could you clarify, perhaps? Knight Ridder is dead. Gannett is unfortunately the largest U.S. newspaper publisher, having been bought in 2019 by private equity companies that censor every local publication's coverage and fire any reporter who might investigate and unsettle the status quo.

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That would be wonderful, but Knight Ridder folded in 2006. The buyer of most of its newspapers, McClatchy, crippled itself with debt, went bankrupt, and is owned by one of the worst private-equity funds now.

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That's sort of true but it's also the case that objections simply weren't allowed any space at all in the corporate press. Knight Ridder had 2 or 3 reporters who were doing a great job of countering the case for war all along but they couldn't pay to get their work covered by the big boys.

I remember that the only publication at the time getting it right was Knight-Ridder (later McClatchy). And the only one on tv reporting reality was Phil Donahue on MSNBC, then the only MSNBC show getting high ratings. So MSNBC...fired Phil for calling out the Admin's lies.

Agora mais do que nunca, precisamos de um Knight Ridder.

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One of the great honors of my life was going around Summerville MA in 1996 with some of these strikers, handing out flyers to neighbors of a Knight-Ridder board member warning them that they had a corporate criminal living in their neighborhood. deadlinedetroit.com/articles/333...

Legacy media have melted into cowards. But that's been true for a long time. Remember when all media cucks (except Knight Ridder/McClatchy) elbowed out one another to jump onto the Iraq war wagon lie? Like almost all wealth, they are cowards when pressed by dictators. Even stupid ones like tRump.

Just for clarity :-) I was just a mid-level editor for one of Knight Ridder's newswires; we shared offices with the Washington Bureau of Iraq War fame. Just sayin' I don't speak for the former company or its employees. :-)

Shock and Awe (2017) ⭐ 6.4 | Biography, Drama, History 1h 30m | R

For those who don’t know about or remember the Republican war lies from the early 2000’s

And how important journalism @knight-ridder.bsky.social was to the truth

Here’s a movie for you to watch today.

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You are wrong that the claim that Iraq had WMD was an intelligence failure. Cheney kept going to the CIA (literally), demanding they give him evidence for that. The administration’s claims got push back from the WMD experts at the CIA as well as from UN weapons inspectors.
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It depended on who was doing the debating.

Cruz is compiling two bad-faith arguments - claiming civilians are combatants and that Iraq is a present threat.

It's more mainstream that Iran is not a present threat than Iraq was (despite the Knight Ridder reporting to the contrary) 1/2

Shock and Awe (film) - Wikipedia

The incredulity of Knight Ridder reporters is covered by this film. Nice quote here from John Walcott (Washington Bureau Chief ATT). Barely scraped through the box office in 2017, US indifference to the truth summed up by one review panning it as “dramatically inert” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_a...

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For decades DC msm helped GOPrs misinform Americans on major issues confronting our republic. In 90s, we must cut foreign aid to balance the budget; 00s WMD in Iraq (Knight Ridder the exception); 10s America is in debt crisis like Greece; 20s DOGE will cut waste/fraud
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