Monck versus Davies over Iraq war

City University's Professor Adrian Monck has taken issue with Nick Davies's view that British newspapers gullibly accepted the Blair government's case for war in Iraq. He quotes a series of articles - from the Daily Mail, the Financial Times, the Daily Telegraph plus two Times columnists - that poured scorn on Blair's WMD claims. Monck concludes: "Whatever else happened, newspaper readers were given a healthy dose of realism in the interpretation of the dossier. Of course, MPs don't always read newspapers..." (Via Adrian Monck)