War Made Easy: Norman Solomon on How Mainstream Media Helped Pave Way for U.S. Invasion of Iraq

An excellent and deeply important interview with Norman Solomon which counters the pervasive and poisonous propaganda heard on corporate funded mainstream media. This is why I turn again and again to independent media resources like Democracy Now! who hold the powerful accountable rather than act as their mouthpieces. ― Molly

As we continue to mark the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, we look at how the corporate U.S. media helped pave the way for war by uncritically amplifying lies and misrepresentations from the Bush administration while silencing voices of dissent. Longtime media critic Norman Solomon says many of the same media personalities and news outlets that pushed aggressively for the invasion then are now helping to solidify an elite consensus around the Ukraine war. “In the mass media, being pro-war is portrayed as objective. Being antiwar is portrayed as being biased,” he says. Solomon is author of War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death and the forthcoming War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine.

Please go here for the original interview and full transcript: https://www.democracynow.org/2023/3/21/iraq_war_corporate_media