AP report: Hussein is journalist

Posted on 22 November, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"A series of accusations raised by the U.S. military against an Associated Press photographer detained for 19 months in Iraq are false or meaningless, according to an intensive AP investigation of the case made public Wednesday."

Washington Post: Directors say war films make up for poor reporting

Posted on 15 November, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"Two Hollywood directors who are part of a wave of films about the war in Iraq and the broader fallout from the September 11, 2001 attacks have said they were only doing what media failed to do -- telling the truth."

New Yorker: Shifting Targets: The Adminstration’s plan for Iran

Posted on 30 September, 2007 by Martin Stabe

Seymour Hersh's latest: "This summer, the White House, pushed by the office of Vice-President Dick Cheney, requested that the Joint Chiefs of Staff redraw long-standing plans for a possible attack on Iran, according to former officials and government cons

The Huffington Post: CBS: Sy Hersh To Report U.S. Planning Iran Military Action

Posted on 30 September, 2007 by Martin Stabe

This certainly sounds very, very plausible: "we understand there's an article coming out in The New Yorker next week, Sy Hirsch [sic] talking about plans the Administration is making to go into Iran in a military way."

Spiegel Online: Interview with Investigative Journalist Seymour Hersh: ‘The President Has Accepted Ethnic Cleansing

Posted on 30 September, 2007 by Martin Stabe

Hersh: "I'm asked the question all the time: What happened to my old paper, the New York Times? And I now say, they stink. They missed it. They missed the biggest story of the time and they're going to have to live with it."

Telegraph: Why New York hasn’t been attacked again

Posted on 11 September, 2007 by Martin Stabe

Judith Miller -- now described as a "contributing editor of Manhattan Institute's City Journal" -- is published in the Telegraph.

The New York Review of Books: Goodbye to Newspapers?

Posted on 22 July, 2007 by Martin Stabe

Reviews of "When the Press Fails: Political Power and the New Media from Iraq to Katrina" and " American Carnival: Journalism Under Siege in an Age of New Media".

Observer: Call to end war signals start of a media battle

Posted on 15 July, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"Far more than in the 1960s, the modern American media landscape is divided into warring tribes who seem to spend at least as much time attacking each other as attacking the administration of the day."

Telegraph: BBC ‘risked safety of troops’

Posted on 20 June, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"The BBC was accused last night of risking the safety of British forces in Iraq after trawling for information on troop movements in the war-torn country."

Stop the NUJ boycott: Democracy in the NUJ

Posted on 6 June, 2007 by Martin Stabe

Rory Cellan Jones: "[T]his whole affair is showing the huge hole in the democratic structure of the union."

The Observer: This academic boycott is an empty gesture

Posted on 3 June, 2007 by Martin Stabe

Obs leader: "Last month, the National Union of Journalists voted for a boycott of everything Israeli, an absurd gesture since, if implemented, it would make reporting from Jerusalem impossible."

New York Times: Malicious Boycotts

Posted on 3 June, 2007 by Martin Stabe

New York Times leader slams the "shameful" NUJ boycott call: "Who would trust the dispatches of a reporter who has been openly engaged against one side of a conflict?"

EducationGuardian.co.uk: Nobel laureate cancels UK trip over Israel boycott

Posted on 25 May, 2007 by Martin Stabe

Steven Weinberg, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, has cancelled a trip to speak at Imperial College because of the NUJ's decision to call for a boycott of Israel.

Observer: Bid to censor press over prince’s army deployment

Posted on 20 May, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"Revelations about the deployment of Prince Harry to a war zone will be censored if the government agrees to a proposal that future information surrounding his military career is covered by a D-notice."

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Category Archives: Middle East

AP report: Hussein is journalist

Washington Post: Directors say war films make up for poor reporting

New Yorker: Shifting Targets: The Adminstration’s plan for Iran

The Huffington Post: CBS: Sy Hersh To Report U.S. Planning Iran Military Action

Spiegel Online: Interview with Investigative Journalist Seymour Hersh: ‘The President Has Accepted Ethnic Cleansing

Telegraph: Why New York hasn’t been attacked again

The New York Review of Books: Goodbye to Newspapers?

Observer: Call to end war signals start of a media battle

Telegraph: BBC ‘risked safety of troops’

Stop the NUJ boycott: Democracy in the NUJ

The Observer: This academic boycott is an empty gesture

New York Times: Malicious Boycotts

EducationGuardian.co.uk: Nobel laureate cancels UK trip over Israel boycott

Observer: Bid to censor press over prince’s army deployment