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PensivePenny wrote:

Acetone wrote:

Teague wrote:Oh let me add - what peer review findings did they report on with WMD's in Iraq? They seemed pretty good at dispensining exactly what your government wanted.

Rofl, what the president and his administration all say does not require peer-review to be put into the news.

I beg to differ with one caveat. If our government says CIA intelligence indicates Canada has WMD and intends to attack the US with them, it's the responsibility of the media to verify it. Blindly accepting the governments statements as fact, not requiring verification is PRECISELY why the first amendment exists.

The caveat, reporting what an official says doesn't require verification if the reporter heard if first hand. But, the content of what is said, DOES require verification, if that content is some assertion.