Media Obedience to Authority

12-23-06 · 0 comments

Nick Douglas posts at Eat the Press that Diane Sawyer Chris Cuomo will be conducting a version of Stanley Milgram’s experiment on obedience to authority on an upcoming version of 20/20. He wonders whether it’s a publicity stunt. I wonder whether it’s commentary on an incurious media’s docility during the runup to the Iraq War. An explanation of Judith Miller’s credulous reporting, perhaps?

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