Quote: The book, published Oct. 15, charges French reporters were more patriotic than journalistic and what was written amounted to disinformation.
It can be argued that the American media did the same thing.
Jessica Lynch anyone?
Asked whether the military's portrayal of the rescue bothers her, Lynch said, "Yeah, it does. It does that they used me as a way to symbolize all this stuff. I mean, yeah, it's wrong … I don't know what they had … or why they filmed it."
"The first casualty when war comes is truth". - Hiram W Johnson(R)senator for California(1917-1945
