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The New York Times offers a lukewarm response to criticism of its flawed reporting on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. Also: GOP dominance and how this is impacting the media landscape.
Discussion with Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman on her new book, The Exception to the Rulers.
Discussion with writer Jen Banbury on her reports of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Also with week: Professor Stephen Doig on newsroom diversity.
The White House is pushing a sanitized version of what happened to Iraqi prisoners while in US custody, and journalists are following suit. Also: discussion on John Kerry and the charges against him.
As more Iraqi civilians continue to be killed in Fallujah, CounterSpin explores how US journalism is covering this crucial moment. Also: the Bush administration makes another attempt to sell the public on the Patriot Act, with little interference from media despite deception and inaccuracies.
Ali Abunimah of the website Electronic Intifada on new developments in the Palestinian West Bank. And journalist Jason Vest on the Coalition Provisional Authority and its alleged criticism of the Iraq occupation.
Why is US reporting on Fallujah so different from that coming from independent and international reporters covering the besieged city? Also: Laura Flanders talks her new book, which takes a critical look at women of the Bush administration.
What’s wrong with US reporting on Iraq’s Shia community? Also: discussion on under-discussed causes of rising gas prices.
Newsday columnist Jim Pinkerton discusses former counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke. And retired CIA official Melvin Goodman examines what’s lacking from coverage on the September 11 Commission’s initial reports.
More on Richard Clarke and his charges against the White House. Also on CounterSpin: discussion on USA Today reporter, James Kelly, and his fabricated news stories.
Do recent election results suggest that Spain is going soft on the war on terror? Also: how has the Iraqi National Congress meddled with American media?
How has media handled the Bush administration’s charges against the likely Democratic nominee for president, John Kerry? Also: a new study from the University of Maryland gives U.S. news coverage of weapons of mass destruction low marks. More on this with the study’s author, Susan Moeller.
Martin Bright of the Observer on American reporting on Iraq. Also: former 60 Minutes producer Barry Lando on the New York Times and misinformation.
Investigative journalist Robert Dreyfuss shares about his recent Mother Jones article, The Lie Factory, which details how faulty information has shaped much of the Bush administration’s case for war in Iraq. Also this week: are new reports giving us enough background information about what has prompted the current crisis in Haiti?
More this week on Haiti and how US involvement has shaped the current crisis. Also on CounterSpin: what’s at stake following the FCC’s recent decision to relax media ownership restrictions?
Is media coverage clarifying the potential impact of the $2.4 trillion package, or just making a confusing issue more confusing?
CounterSpin: Mainstream U.S. media love dissent. They love to report about it and editorialize in favor of it—when it happens in places like China or Cuba. The Washington Post and the New York Times have even endorsed armed dissent, editorializing in the 1980s in favor of aid to rebel armies. But when dissent comes home, […]
More than 200,000 Guatemalan civilians were killed or disappeared during 36 years of civil war ending in 1996, according to a report from the Guatemalan Historical Clarification Commission released in February. The nine-volume, 3,500-page report found that U.S. assistance was a key factor in human rights violations during the armed conflict. Yet Guatemala’s human rights […]
