Journalism’s Reckoning with 'Manipulation at a Mass Scale'

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I traveled once to Tripoli to interview Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. Colleagues and I met him in a Bedouin tent under a full moon on the grounds of Bab al-Azizya, his walled barracks. He was a man who both courted and spurned the West; as our story later recounted, he offered us “sweet tea and a bitter critique of U.S. foreign policy.”

Gadhafi was a rogue force on the world stage, denying Libya’s terrorist activities and dismissive of his country’s role in the ghastly Pan Am bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland that killed 270 in 1988.

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