Several presidential administrations used the mainstream media to make the case for war to a naive American public.  The classic examples were the Spanish-American War in the 1890s; the Vietnam War in the 1960s; and the Iraq War in 2003.  In each case, the national security teams of Presidents McKinley, Johnson, and Bush respectively politicized More

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