'THE SHAME OF AMERICAN JOURNALISM' [View All]

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The debacle in Iraq certainly isn't all its fault, but our national media deserves to stand up and take a bow.
KENNETH NEILL

I've been in this business for the best part of thirty years now, and for most of that time, I've been proud to be a tiny, relatively inconspicuous part of something called the "American news media."

I was not very proud last night. Yesterday evening, I happened to watch a few of the network tv news broadcasts, focused as they were, primarily, upon Tuesday's UN speech by President Bush, and upon another interesting news development, one datelined Guantanomo Bay, Cuba.

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Mr Halabi faces more than 30 charges relating to espionage, aiding the enemy, disobeying orders, and making false official statements. Mr Halabi was arrested on 23 July but news of his detention only emerged this week. The BBC's David Bamford, in Washington, said defence officials would not say why they had kept the two arrests quiet.

Interesting. Al-Halabi was arrested on July 23rd, and the Pentagon just "happened" to announce his indictment two months to the day later, on the same day as a potentially controversial Presidential speech at the UN?

http://www.memphisflyer.com/onthefly/onthefly_new.asp?ID=2576



Rove calls out and the media whores respond. It would be funny if it weren't so tragic.


on edit:
now if we can just overturn this decision that says the 'news' agencies can lie... that would be a start.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/cgi-bin/duforum/duboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=16627&forum=DCForumID61