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Assignment Iowa: The Role of the Press

In this edition of Assignment Iowa, a panel of Iowa journalists and media watchers discusses the responsibility of the press in times of national crisis. In the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq, the government's claims about weapons of mass destruction and terrorist ties to Saddam Hussein went mostly unchallenged by the media. Four years after "shock and awe," how the government sold the war has been much examined, but a big question remains: how and why did the press buy it?

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