[lbo-talk] Times begins to grapple w/ Judith Miller's awful reporting

[Willy Greenfields]

But they just can't bring themselves to print her name
or admit that, while others dutifully reported the
Washington line, Miller did so with amplification,
adding large measures of Chalabi disinfo into the mix.
Worse yet, they're framing it as a series of
journalistic shortcomings (insufficient sourcing,
mistaking perceived consesus for verifiable fact, etc)
without considering that it was the Times' - Miller's
specifically - reporting that helped "legitimize" the
war against Iraq and propel the US toward the mess it
now finds itself in. 

Note link at end of piece:

<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/26/international/middleeast/26FTE_NOTE.html?8dpc=&pagewanted=print&position=>

	

		
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