Josh Mason wrote:
> C. G. Estabrook:
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> >As Diana Johnstone puts it, rather neatly, --
> > [. . .quote from Johnstone missing. . . ]
> Anything from this source should be treated with great skepticism. Johnstone is a longtime friend of a group of officials in Milosevic's wife's political party--stays with them when she's in Yugoslavia, depends on them (often exclusively) as sources for her articles, etc.
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> I know this because I was for a while an editor at In These Times, whose European correspondent she once was. We were forced to stop printing her stuff when we learned where it was coming from--there wasn't even the pretense of independent reporting.
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> This piece is typical: does anyone here seriously believe that the KLA was created by NATO to give them a pretext to bomb Serbia? (Well, not quite typical, since she doesn't, as she tried to in our pages, deny the slaughter of Muslims by Bosnian Serbs.)
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> Josh
********This disturbs me greatly since D. Johnstone was presented byDennis Bernstein on Wednesday night on FlashPoints (KPFA-Pacifica) along with Michael Ratner as an important alternative voice on Kosovo. The fact that this strong bias (this key relationship with the subject) of hers was not disclosed, greatly affects the "alternative" view presented. I have much stronger standards for the news and reporting I get from the various "alternative" sources----I expect them to be above the commercial stations in their disclosure of bias. I give *money* to KPFA and they're going to receive a rash of shit now from me! -steve grube