Not just journalists, anyone who questioned the necessity of war, anyone who called for a ceasefire, anyone who expressed worry about systemic profiling & war abuses, was slammed as a traitor, by people who we had previously looked up to as exemplary.
EVERYONE changed. I still haven't recovered from seeing an old sociology teacher become a pro war radical nationalist partisan. Everyone, from lawyers, prominent business leaders, feminist movement leaders, religious fathers, got on the bandwagon.