Burying Uncomfortable News on Iraq

Michael Griffin, a media studies professor at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, asks, "How are we to explain the fact that U.S. involvement in transferring to Iraq the same weapons we accuse them of criminally possessing is not a story worthy of high visibility in [American] news media outlets? It would seem that such a story is not only worthy of front page treatment, if not front page headlines, but that U.S. involvement in helping to provide Iraq's weapons of mass destruction should be a central issue in the debate over going to war. It is understandable that the President would not want this to be part of the debate. But how do we explain the fact that mainstream news media do not seem to want it to be part of the debate, and are, in fact, effectively burying the story?"