During the run up to the March 2003 invasion of Iraq, Knight-Ridder
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Washington Post: Why do we continue to listen to Bob Woodward offer his opinion of the war when he was so wrong on WMD? And conversely, why aren’t the Knight-Ridder reporters (the one’s who the got WMD story right) given more credibility and exposure?
Raney Aronson: I wish we had more time to explore this issue in our film. I felt like we could have done an entire film on what happened in the run up to the war in Iraq. On the point about the Knight-Ridder reporters – what Tom Rosentiel (the PEJ director) told us was that because these reporters weren’t writing for the NYTimes or the Washington Post they simply didn’t get the attention at the time that they should have. As Clark Hoyt told us (the editor at the time at Knight Ridder) – if they had gotten the attention they deserved perhaps there would have been a very different debate in America during the run up to the war in Iraq.
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A few weeks earlier, Knight Ridder Washington reporters Warren Strobel and Jonathan Landay received the Raymond Clapper Memorial award from the Senate Press Gallery for their coverage of the sketchy intelligence used to justify war with Iraq.
For about a year-and-a-half, the pair had filed compelling stories on the issue and, on many occasions, it seemed like they were banging the drum alone. It wasn’t until earlier this year, when it became increasingly apparent Hussein had not been stockpiling weapons of mass destruction, that other news outlets grew more critical of the administratio