Review Article: The Perfect Storm

摘要

How did it all go so wrong? Who is at fault? The blame game that Dick Cheney and George Bush disavowed is now in full flow, especially as the American debacle in Iraq worsens. Not far below the obvious culprits in the Bush administration, the press stands near the top of the list of guilty parties. Critics have pounced and leading publications, including The New York Times and The Washington Post, have published long mea culpae. What caused this apparent dereliction in the American press? Are the media really responsible for the Iraq debacle? A slew of books by insiders and critics have attempted to assess the role of the press in the Iraq fiasco and to assign blame, of which there is plenty to go around.