The following description of mainstream journalists’ domesticated relationship with the Bush Administration comes from John Nichols, writing about the heroic stand of John Conyers for the rule of law in the aftermath of the release of British memos that reveal Bush’s criminal conspiracy to manufacture a war against Iraq.
“The years of the Bush presidency will be remembered as a time when American media, for the most part, practiced stenography to power’.”
Stenography to power. Remember that phrase. It will be used in history books, and by generations of future journalists who will look at the first decade of the 21st century as a dark time for their profession.
