The News about the News

I enjoyed the knowledge gained from the book, but also it's frustrating that information that should be free to the public is very censored. The first chapter tells a lot about Chalabi's involvement into why the US went to war with Iraq, but also why wasn't the news doing its job on informing the public correctly about what was true and unbiased. In the next chapters they talk about Cheney's speech when he declared Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. Four years had passed since the US declared that Iraq had no weapons or bombs, so why is it such a serious issue now? Bombs were never used during 9/11 therefor why did we become so fearful of them but many experts reported that Baghdad had weapons and intentions to make them. Also that Saddam was trying to attain aluminum tubes. I liked it a lot because it talks a lot about how the News is there to keep the government in check, but once the government controls the news, whose telling the truth?

It's also very sad that newspapers are no longer being used as much. I think people no longer appreciate getting the news on hand, you don't need a TV or computer to read paper. I think that if something doesn't change our news will be filled with stupid stories that are pointless and news that isn't worth being told. The whole book is very interesting.