How Television Kept America IN THE DARK

The New York Review of Books: Iraq, the Press and the Election:

I've written before about television "journalism's" abysmal coverage of our presidential elections, of the war in Iraq, and of the world. In this New York Review of Books article, Michael Massing goes into some detail.

An excerpt:

"On The O'Reilly Factor, the central question for weeks was 'Should CBS fire Dan Rather?' Bill O'Reilly spent far more time dissecting Rather's mistakes at CBS than he did analyzing Bush's deeds in Iraq.

"And that's how Fox wants it. The most striking feature of its coverage of the war in Iraq was, in fact, its lack of coverage."