Steve Rendall and Tara Broughel

About the author: Steve Rendall is the senior analyst for Fairness and Accuracy in the Media (FAIR), cohost of CounterSpin, FAIR's national radio show, and coauthor of The Way Things Aren't: Rush Limbaugh's Reign of Error. Tara Broughel is an intern at FAIR's bimonthly magazine Extra!

In the weeks following the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March 2003, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators protested the war in cities throughout the world. The antiwar viewpoint, however, was largely absent on television news programs. Instead hundreds of prowar military and government officials dominated the discussion on network and cable news shows. Analysis of events by these guests bordered on cheerleading the U.S. efforts. Serious problems concerning death and destruction from the invasion, as well as issues of international...