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  • Setting The Record Straight
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Bill Moyers Remarks prepared for the recent 50th anniversary of The Texas Observer, an independent newspaper in Austin, Tx.
    The 50th anniversary of The Texas Observer is a double celebration for me. Your first issue appeared one week before Judith Davidson and I were married in December 1954. We had transferred here to the University of Texas as juniors and were renting a garage apartment that has now totally disappeared along with the block on which it stood. So many landmarks of (…)

  • Open letter to the BBC
    16 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by The MEDIALENS Editors
    To:
    peter.horrocks@bbc.co.uk (head of TV news) kevin.bakhurst@bbc.co.uk (head of 10 O’clock news)
    I hope things are fine with you. I was pleased to see the Ten leading last night with a report on the use of white phosphorus in the assault on Falluja last year.
    Could you possibly provide the source of Paul Wood’s assertion that "this deadly substance [WP] was fired directly at trenches full of insurgents." That was misleading. As you are likely aware, there is (…)

  • BOOK ON CIA’s SECRET JAILS: "Operation Hotel California" by Guido Olimpio
    6 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The first book-length expose of CIA kidnappings and prisons — two of the greatest evils in the Bush government, and the world — by the Italian investigative journalist Guido Olimpio is here, and it’s new and as current as todays news stories about secret jails the CIA runs! The book is a must-read for anyone wanting to know about the CIA’s practice of "rendition": kidnapping people and transporting them to places like Egypt for torture. It’s an extremely controversial practice, a threat to (…)

  • Sorry, Judy... Everybody Didn’t Get it Wrong on WMD
    21 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Arianna Huffington
    In the Times’ Sunday Judy-Culpa, Judy Miller said of her woeful pre-war reporting: "WMD — I got it totally wrong... The analysts, the experts and the journalists who covered them — we were all wrong."
    To which a growing number of journalists are responding: No, we weren’t.
    Among them is Joe Lauria, a reporter who has covered the UN since 1990 for a variety of papers, including the London Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph, and the Boston Globe. He bridles at Miller’s (…)

  • Judy Miller’s Reporting: A Cancer on the New York Times?
    19 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Arianna Huffington
    Signs of trouble and Judy Miller were like Mary and her little lamb. Everywhere that Judy went, a flashing warning sign was sure to follow.
    Indeed, in looking back on her career, it’s clear that there were more red flags popping up around Judy Miller’s work as a journalist than at a May Day parade in Red Square.
    We now know that Miller’s bosses were being warned about serious credibility problems with her reporting as far back as 2000 — a warning that came from a (…)

  • Reporter, Times Are Criticized for Missteps
    19 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Media Analysts Question Decisions by Miller, Newspaper’s Editors Regarding Leak
    By Howard Kurtz
    Media analysts assailed New York Times reporter Judith Miller and her editors yesterday for what they called a series of missteps and questionable decisions revealed in two lengthy articles about the problems of covering the CIA leak investigation while defending the embattled journalist.
    Alex Jones, a former Times reporter who heads the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public (…)

  • Press Silence On Impeachment
    17 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Press Silence On Impeachment Text of Radio BC Audio Commentary October 06, 2005 Listen Now -
    The corporate media in the United States can hardly claim to fill a journalistic role, anymore. The first duty of a real newsperson is to ask questions. But the corporate press can’t bring itself to ask even the most obvious questions, including on issues that are important to a high proportion of the public. When we refer to the corporate media, we’re also talking about the major polling (…)

  • Catch-22 at the New York Times
    15 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    It’s put up or shut up time at the paper of record.
    Now that Judge Hogan has lifted Judy Miller’s contempt citation, there is no reason for the Times to hold back on its promised full accounting of the Miller story.
    Rarely has so much been riding on a single article.
    Especially internally. The frustration I’ve been reporting on since July has now spilled into the MSM with "nearly a dozen Times staffers" venting to Howard Kurtz. The Times newsroom is a powder keg ready to blow.
    But (…)

  • Buying of News by Bush’s Aides Is Ruled Illegal
    1 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By ROBERT PEAR
    WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 - Federal auditors said on Friday that the Bush administration violated the law by buying favorable news coverage of President Bush’s education policies, by making payments to the conservative commentator Armstrong Williams and by hiring a public relations company to analyze media perceptions of the Republican Party.
    In a blistering report, the investigators, from the Government Accountability Office, said the administration had disseminated "covert (…)

  • US forces ’out of control’, says Reuters chief
    29 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Julia Day Wednesday September 28, 2005
    Reuters has told the US government that American forces’ conduct towards journalists in Iraq is "spiralling out of control" and preventing full coverage of the war reaching the public.
    The detention and accidental shootings of journalists is limiting how journalists can operate, wrote David Schlesinger, the Reuters global managing editor, in a letter to Senator John Warner, head of the armed services committee.
    The Reuters news service chief (…)