EPISODE · Mar 12, 2026 · 31 MIN
Hour 3: The "liberal" media sold us one bad war already - are they doing it again?
from The Scoot Show with Scoot
This hour, Ian Hoch explains how the mainstream media failed at its job when covering the justification of the Iraqi war. Then, Ian speaks with Janine Zacharia, who spent two decades reporting on the Middle East, including as a Middle East correspondent for the Washington Post, and now teaches journalism at Stanford, about what grade the US media gets in covering the current war in the Middle East and what lessons the big newspapers and TV outlets learned from the failed coverage of the Iraq War.
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This hour, Ian Hoch explains how the mainstream media failed at its job when covering the justification of the Iraqi war. Then, Ian speaks with Janine Zacharia, who spent two decades reporting on the Middle East, including as a Middle East correspondent for the Washington Post, and now teaches journalism at Stanford, about what grade the US media gets in covering the current war in the Middle East and what lessons the big newspapers and TV outlets learned from the failed coverage of the Iraq War.
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Hour 3: The "liberal" media sold us one bad war already - are they doing it again?
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