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

[Doug Henwood]

Willy Greenfields noted:


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

And isn't this bit lovely? "Complicating matters for journalists, the 
accounts of these exiles were often eagerly confirmed by United 
States officials convinced of the need to intervene in Iraq." Uh, 
right, journalists should always trust governments when they 
"confirm" the reports of interested parties.

Doug