[Pharmboy]

Alex S. Jones, director of Harvard's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, said Mr. Jordan was being unfairly singled out. "I think every news organization has to make those kinds of calls from time to time," he said.

Thanks for weighing in on this one. Why don't you STFU.

And while I am in a bilious mood, what did the Times know and when did they know it?

[Support Free Republic]

There's no need to be deeply saddened !
	You can help push Tiny Tom over the edge here. Or mail checks to FreeRepublic , LLC PO BOX 9771 FRESNO, CA 93794 or you can use PayPal at Jimrob@psnw.com
STOP BY AND BUMP THE FUNDRAISER THREAD- It is in the breaking news sidebar!

[IncPen]

I want to know what distinction CNN makes between the lies they covered up in Iraq in the 1990s and the lies they covered up for Clinton at the same time

And, what's the difference then, between Baghdad Bob and Mike McCurry?

[goodnesswins]

"In the end, Mr. Jordan said he came to a conclusion that others had as well: for all of the restrictions and dangers in Baghdad, it was better to be there than not."

Yeah...uh huh... better to be there and witness totalinarinism.....than to REPORT IT. This is what "journalism" has come to......THEY are the story....not what's HAPPENING around them.

[Savage Beast]

"for all of the restrictions and dangers in Baghdad, it was better to be there than not"

Uhhh... Why?

[bart99]

"withheld some accounts of Saddam Hussein's brutality for years to protect the lives of Iraqi sources"
===== ===== ===== =====

I wish there was a congressional investigation about the press's role in aiding and comforting an 'enemy'...... I mean this happened during the Gulf war (with Arnett) and was still going on during this recent conflict at Baghdad Bob's hotel and all the 'minders' that conrolled the press. So their reporting was 'biased', giving aid and comfort etc.

Unfortunately, 'freedom of the press' would win out, I guess. But...... this should simply not be a topic for analysis by other journalistic analysts, but should be something significanntly more. I wonder how CNN is reporting the recent executions in Cuba.

Oh.... I feel like going on a rant.

Didn't Jordan feel any comlicity in KNOWING that 5,000 children a year (for 12 years) were dying because the UN oil for food program money was being diverted?? I think he knew. I wonder.......

Oh well..... just hoping more (like truthful and accurate reporting) will come of this situation with the press reporting in these regimes across the world.