Notes

1“Atlanta Named Top Asthma Capital for 2007,” Medical News Today, April 27, 2007.

2Michael Schrage, “Use Every Article in the Arsenal,” Washington Post, January 15, 2006. See Lila Rajiva, “Riding the Tale of the Elephant,” Dissident Voice, January 24, 2006, on which this chapter is based.

3WSJ Reporter Fassihi's Email to Friends,” Poynter Online, September 29, 2004.

4Howard Kurtz, “Jeff Gannon Admits Past ‘Mistakes,’ Berates Critics,” Washington Post, February 19, 2005, C01.

5James Bamford, “The Man Who Sold the War,” Rolling Stone, November 17, 2005.

6Ibid.

7Ibid.

8Kevin Zeese, “The Best War Ever—Interview with Sheldon Rampton,” Counterpunch, September 1, 2006.

9Thomas Fleming, The Illusion of Victory: America in World War I (New York: Basic Books, 2003), 45.

10Ibid., 43–48. This story was taken up eagerly by the Belgians themselves, since it seemed to excuse them for having done this very thing to thousands of natives in the Congo.

11Fleming, Illusion of Victory, 52.

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