Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center, November 7, 2005
By Victor Pickard

Mainstream media have blood on their hands. That is one lesson we can draw from official apologies for pre-Iraq War coverage, beginning with the New York Times's public confession in May 2004. Typically, these "media culpas" confessed being overly credulous in accepting the Bush administration's rationale for war.

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