It's been 20 years since former President George W. Bush delivered his “Mission Accomplished” Speech. Since then, Iraqi journalists have fought to tell their own stories.
This is On the Media. I'm Brooke Gladstone. This week marks 20 years since Mission Accomplished. The speech given by then President George W Bush on the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln.My fellow Americans. Major combat operations in Iraq have ended in the battle of Iraq. The United States and our allies have prevailed.For On the Media, producer Suzanne Gaber takes us back to the streets of Baghdad right after Bush's speech had aired.It was a victory in the U.S.
You see, like official Iraqi media network becoming a kind of a replicate of the media organization under Saddam, glorifying the prime minister, whoever he is.The structure that was put in place after the American invasion, where each political party had its own media megaphone, went unchallenged for nearly a decade, until in 2014, Shia and Sunni media outlets, instead of fighting each other, found a common foe.We began the scene with the escalating crisis in Iraq.
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