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by bristleworm 2288 days ago
"after 9/11 and false reports of weapons of mass destruction my trust in the media has been badly tainted."

could you elaborate on this please?

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https://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/weapons-mass-destruction...

The WMD story was amplified by the media, there was no real investigative reporting done to find out the validity of the government's WMD claims and as a consequence the media helped the US raise an army that under wrongful pretexts started a war in the middle east.