Tag: iraq
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Iraq: The War Card – The Center for Public Integrity
Big journalism package from a non-profit on the inconsistencies between what the government said about Iraq and what happened. Iraq: The War Card – The Center for Public Integrity
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Citizen journalist killed in Iraq
{ Those of us that were in the room during the ‘Video’ session at the Networked Journalism conference in October remember witnessing Brian Conley of Alive in Baghdad basically make a plea to anyone from the numerous large, profitable news organizations at the conference to help out the cause of citizen journalism in Iraq with…
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Everybody’s Talking Heads
I’ve seen David Byrne’s blog post about a visit to the New York Times in too many places today to figure out where I saw it first. Here’s my favorite graf: “At present, it is mostly the ads in the Style section, and the glossy Sunday and T magazines that pay for a disproportionate amount…
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Buying The War – Bill Moyers
PBS series starting soon on the media’s early role in the Iraq war. How did we/they get it so wrong? via Josh R. Buying The War – Bill Moyers
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Reporting Iraq – CJR November/December 2006
Are you sure you want to be a war reporter? CJR goes all-out in this piece. Reporting Iraq – CJR November/December 2006
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War Protestor’s Public Suicide in Chicago Went Unnoticed by Media
Should he have sent out press releases? Blogged about it? Posthumously posted the suicide video on YouTube? What would have drawn the most attention? War Protestor’s Public Suicide in Chicago Went Unnoticed by Media
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Guardian Unlimited | Video | Sean Smith in Iraq
A snapshot of futility, and thus, an effective piece of newspaper video journalism. Guardian Unlimited | Video | Sean Smith in Iraq
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P.R. Group That Paid Off Iraqi Papers Gets New $6.2 Million Media Contract
Because we are THAT GOOD at screwing the same thing up twice. P.R. Group That Paid Off Iraqi Papers Gets New $6.2 Million Media Contract
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Salam Pax audio is online
One of the Salam Pax talks in San Jose last month is now online as a Commonwealth Club podcast here. It looks like the audio will also be on KQED (88.5 FM in the Bay Area). You can find the story I wrote for the Daily on his talk at SJSU here. An excerpt from…
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Hey Iraq, mind if we write your newspapers for you? Thanks, Uncle Sam.
Today’s LA Times reports that “the U.S. military is secretly paying Iraqi newspapers to publish stories written by American troops in an effort to burnish the image of the U.S. mission in Iraq.” Oh. Okay. So we talk and talk and talk about all the democracy we’re giving the Iraqis, but in the meantime, the…