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Regarding the NYT’s lack of coverage of last month’s Winter Soldier hearings in DC. The public editor speaks:
News organizations like the Times, with its own substantial investment in independent reporting from Iraq tend to prefer their own on-scene accounts of the war, rather than relying on charges and counter-charges at home by organizations with strongly [...]
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Whoah, whoah, there NYT…
On top of using the flawed National Journal poll to show Obama as the “most liberal” US Senator — more than once, and with an additional emphasis in an inside page cutline — today’s “Political Memo” from Robin Toner (“Obama’s Test: Can a Liberal be a Unifier?”) is exactly the kind of [...]
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Canadian citizen Omar Khadr, who has been held by the American government for nearly six years (ie, since he was 15 years old), is now saying that at Guantanamo, “U.S. interrogators repeatedly threatened to rape him and Canadian government visitors told him they were powerless to do anything.”
So far, no mention in the [...]
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There’s a whole mess o’ shit with this official Pentagon report that, well, tells most of us (well, maybe not all of us) what we already knew: no link between al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein. Duh.
I heard about the report yesterday on NPR’s All Things Considered, and, what with Spitzer-sex-mania all over the press, I was [...]
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What do you do?
Apparently, you just write more letters. In a new, not-all-that-exciting development in the pr/propaganda story, Democratic leaders of Congress sent President Bush a letter on Friday. It was, unsurprisingly, a call for Bush to “direct each department and agency of the Executive Branch to disclose to the appropriate Committee of [...]
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