During the run-up to the Iraq War, the nation’s leading print and broadcast media could have saved lives if they had questioned the administration’s pronouncements, according to Helen Thomas. Instead, they were an echo chamber for the White House.

I honestly believe that if reporters had put the spotlight on the flaws in the Bush Administration’s war policies, they could have saved the country the heartache and the losses of American and Iraqi lives.

It is past time for reporters to forget the party line, ask the tough questions and let the chips fall where they may.

Read her pointed analysis in ‘The Nation’ Here