So when historians look back, I think they will identify the MSM’s appalling performance as one of the main sources the West’s vulnerability to Global Jihad at the beginning of this century. — Richard Landes, at Herzliya Conference.
This is not just journalism-centric exaggeration, it’s a serious argument which you must read — here. He also shows how the biased coverage of the Israeli-Arab conflict is a paradigm case of the media’s failure at this critical point in history.