… of how we got here: Jill Abramson’s sad admission Why did the New York Times back down again and again and hold important stories? The reasons are infuriating. — Patrick L. Smith Also worthy of note: Heather Digby Parton on “Long slide into the abyss”: Cheney’s old pal Ahmed Chalabi is back And more media mess: Media Matters on How […]
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The News of the World debacle is a huge media story — and in typical fashion, our “Fair & Balanced” major news media organizations generally don’t know how to deal with it. Namely, by stating the facts. Such as: “It seems increasingly likely that the techniques of bullying, coercion, spying, and the politics of personal destruction […]
Tags: Faux News·Fixed News·James Murdock·News of the World·Nick Davies·Rupert Murdock
This piece limped to the finish. As if the editors feared catching flak too. But what a shame The New York Times wasn’t shedding this kind of light when Judith Miller and Ahmad Chalabi were cheerleading us into our disastrous invasion of a certain sovereign country that had no weapons of mass destruction, but does […]
Tags: Ahmad Chalabi·Cordoba Center·Daisy Khan·Debbie Almontaser·Feisal Abdul Rauf·Judith Miller·Michael Bloomberg·World Trade Center
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