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Cartoon: Iraq War memories [1]

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Date: 2023-03-18

I was only a few years into my cartooning career at this point, and cannot overstate how appallingly one-sided the news coverage was during the buildup to the invasion. I didn't have cable at the time, so I watched a lot of NBC, which featured an endless parade of hawkish "experts." For those who've forgotten, or weren't old enough, Phil Donahue was a rare TV personality who dared to criticize the invasion. MSNBC fired him, citing low ratings -- even though his was the highest-rated show on the network. Later, memos surfaced that he was in fact canned because NBC execs considered him a "difficult public face for NBC in a time of war."

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