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Article: Fast Track.(John Roberts on Iraq war's media coverage)("Law and Order" show may go to TNT)("Let's Play Crosswords" cleared in 85% of US)
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- May 14, 2007
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Roberts Cites Limits To Iraq Coverage
John Eggerton
CNN host has no regrets about losing CBS anchor chair
By John Eggerton
John Roberts, former CBS newsman and new co-host of CNN's American Morning , has covered Iraq and the Hezbollah/Israel conflict long enough to recognize that the media should have been more vigilant in the run-up to the war, including more diligently fact-checking administration claims. But Roberts believes the problem stems from a lack of journalistic boots on the ground early on.
'CNN had a presence there, and I really can't speak to that because I don't know, but I know at CBS we had ...