American journalism must take some of the blame for this "accursed war" in Iraq, according to the New York Observer's Nicholas Von Hoffman.

Some of the blood is on the hands of the reporters and editors who sold this war, he says. This is one time when they cannot defend themselves by telling us not to kill the messenger. In this tragedy, American journalism didn’t act as the messenger but as co-instigators, co-propagandists, co-warmongers. Instead of being the messenger, they were the message.

There’s Nothing Glorious About Today’s Journalism