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In 2003, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, and Condoleeza Rice hyped the
disastrous Iraq War by warning that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass
destruction. Nearly every news outlet bought it, from The New York Times
to NBC News to The Washington Post.

Every major news outlet but one: Knight Ridder.

Knight Ridder—then the second largest newspaper chain in America—had the
one news team that got the story right. Their journalists saw through
the Bush administration's B.S., and their coverage earned awards and
inspired a Hollywood movie.

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