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Jeremy Scahill: Why Won’t the Media Take Obama to Task for Targeted Assassinations?

Why didn't the media question the "parade of jingoism" surrounding Democrats' celebration of President Obama's foreign policy in Charlotte last week?

Press Room

September 10, 2012

Last week, speakers at the DNC trumpeted the killing of Osama bin Laden to bolster President Obama’s foreign policy credentials, and the cable news pundits went along for the ride. But on Sunday’s Up with Chris Hayes, The Nation’s Jeremy Scahill criticized how the media managed to conveniently overlook some of the more controversial aspects of Obama’s foreign policy, from targeted assasinations of American citizens to the women and children killed in the administration’s wide-scale drone campaign.

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