From The Doc Searls Weblog : Monday, October 25, 2004
“Jimmy Carter is campaigning to win for Kerry what Carter lost to Reagan. Today The Guardian reports an interview with Carter in which the former president spares no ire for George W. Bush or the press coverage of Bush’s administration since 9/11. More here. An excerpt:
‘When your troops go to war, the prime minister or the president change overnight from an administrator, dealing with taxation and welfare and health and deteriorating roads, into the commander-in-chief,” he says. “And it’s just become almost unpatriotic to describe Bush’s fallacious and ill-advised and mistaken and sometimes misleading actions. The press have been cowed, because they didn’t want to be unpatriotic. There has been a lack of inquisitive journalism. In fact, it’s hard to think of a major medium in the United States that has been objective and fair and balanced, and critical when criticism was deserved.’”
