Shouldn’t We Know More About the ‘Experts’ Urging Us to War?

Shouldn’t We Know More About the ‘Experts’ Urging Us to War?

Shouldn’t We Know More About the ‘Experts’ Urging Us to War?

Appearing on Democracy Now! Monday morning, Lee Fang discussed “Who’s Paying the Pro-War Pundits?”—his latest for The Nation.

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One thing the public doesn’t hear about from the pro-war pundits on cable news: how military action in Iraq and Syria could benefit their pocket books. Lee Fang, a contributing writer with The Nation, appeared on Democracy Now! Monday morning to discuss his latest piece, “Who’s Paying the Pro-War Pundits?” In that piece and on the show, Fang describes how many of the pundits and contributors on cable news networks urging aggressive military escalation have conflicts of interest and current ties to military contractors that the public is unaware of. And those conflicts could be skewing public perception of the threat ISIS poses. “Military opinion is not monolithic,” Fang said. “But on many of these networks, you hear from a limited set of opinions.”
—Edward Hart

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