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Media manipulated in Iraq

Fri, 25 May 2007 16:19:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Mainstream media cluelessness as to how they're being (willingly) used by terrorists

Clip Source: www.examiner.com

Blogger Bill Roggio, who has embedded as a journalist in Iraq and Afghanistan, says the enemy’s documents reveal that much of their strategy revolves around manipulation of the media. An enemy unable to beat us on the battlefield is employing a strategy of attacks planned specifically for maximum media coverage and effect.

Tags: media bias

A particularly revealing case of media bias (or incompetence) - Wolfowitz

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:16:08 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Is the media biased ... or just incompetent and lazy? You decide.

Clip Source: opinionjournal.com

Needless to say, none of this context has appeared in the media smears suggesting that Mr. Wolfowitz pulled a fast one to pad the pay of Ms. Riza. Yet the record clearly shows he acted only after he had tried to recuse himself but then wasn't allowed to do so by the ethics committee. And he acted only after that same committee advised him to compensate Ms. Riza for the damage to her career from a "conflict of interest" that was no fault of her own.

Based on this paper trail, Mr. Wolfowitz's only real mistake was in assuming that everyone else was acting in good faith. Yet when some of these details leaked to the media, nearly everyone else at the bank dodged responsibility and let Mr. Wolfowitz twist in the wind. Mr. Melkert, a Dutch politician now at the U.N., seems to have played an especially cowardly role.

Tags: media bias, lazy media

Is it April Fools?

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:21:59 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Is common sense reemerging?

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

The US is perceived by many as an international bully, a modern day imperial power. At this critical moment in history, Washington correspondent Justin Webb challenges that idea.

He argues anti-Americanism is often a cover for hatreds with little justification in fact. His three part series takes him to Cairo, Caracas and Washington but it begins where anti-Americanism began - in Paris.

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