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I wrote a column for @NewIndianXpress on how failure to hold accountable bad media actors complicit in the Iraq/WMD debacle -- such as @jonathanchait, @JeffreyGoldberg, and @davidfrum -- enabled them to perpetrate the Trump/Russia debacle years later newindianexpress.com/nation/2019/ap…
The New Indian Express is a major newspaper based in Chennai, India. Happy to contribute. But would also observe how conspicuous it is that foreign publications seem far more eager/willing to examine the US media's incalculable failures on this story than many US publications.
US publications are unwilling to engage in self-reflection because almost all of them were intensely complicit in the failure. That's why it'll take foreign and independent media to conduct the kind of thorough, painful audit that is so desperately needed.
I would also note that journalists have professional/social incentives to not criticize one another too harshly. These people are notoriously petty and remember any slight for years. One unkind word and your career prospects could be toast. That's why the whole system is screwed.
