Administration Quote by Scott McClellan

The general assumption, which I think is a valid one, is that a lot of the major media were on their heels a little…

— Seymour Hersh

...liberals said the war was a failure because we hadn't captured Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Then we killed al-Zarqawi and a half-dozen of his aides…

— Ann Coulter

There's been a lot of talk about how bad the reporting was, particularly with the George W. Bush Administration after 9/11. The general assumption,…

— Seymour Hersh

The liberal media were never that powerful, and the whole thing was often used as an excuse by conservatives for conservative failures.

— William Kristol

One of the hopeful things that I've discovered is that nearly every war that has started in the past 50 years has been a…

— Julian Assange

Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade…

— Ron Paul

As Iraq erupts in civil war and America again contemplates intervention, that unfinished business should give new urgency to the question of how the…

— Chelsea Manning

“The attacks of 9/11 were the biggest surprise in American history, and for the past ten years we haven't stopped being surprised. The war…

— George Packer

“When the media gets involved, in the United States, that’s a war you’ve got a damned good chance of losing, because the restrictions on…

— Marcus Luttrell

The media is uncritical, and their so-called the concept of objectivity translates into keeping everything within the Beltway. However, Iraq was quite different. Here,…

— Noam Chomsky

I was disappointed, not because we had lost the war but because our people had allowed it to go on for so many years,…

— George Grosz

It did suffer and it became very weak, while the reporters from Iraqi radio and television stations were more active and had more accurate…

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf