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If you had concluded that the Afghan War was in disarray, the front page of the New York Times today probably didn’t do much to change your mind: Taliban Leader in Secret Talks Was an Impostor By DEXTER FILKINS and CARLOTTA GALL KABUL, Afghanistan – For months, the secret talks unfolding between Taliban and Afghan […]
Calling the six months of unanimous news media silence on New York Times reporter David Rohde‘s kidnapping “the most amazing press blackout on a major event that I have ever seen,” Greg Mitchell (Editor & Publisher, 6/23/09) now wonders if a great debate will break out over media ethics in not reporting a story involving […]
Investigative reporter Gareth Porter’s careful reading (Dissident Voice, 6/28/09) of “the official military investigation into the disastrous May 4 airstrike in Farah province” of Afghanistan, which “omitted key details” and “gave no explanation” for reasserting “that only about 26 civilians had been killed”–“well-documented reports by the government and by the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission […]
Pointing to a May 9 Boston Globe editorial saying that Barack “Obama conveyed the right message last week by hosting Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari” to emphasize “the close link between Pakistan and the anti-Taliban struggle in Afghanistan,” before admitting that “U.S. military strikes against militants in both countries inevitably […]
Reading Mark Landler’s and Elizabeth Bumiller’s New York Times “tidbit out of an overheated Washington last week: ‘President Obama and his top advisers have been meeting almost daily to discuss options for helping the Pakistani government and military repel the [Taliban] offensive,’” Tom Engelhardt (TomDispatch, 5/7/09) decides to toss some cold water on “this kind […]
During coverage of the Obama administration’s 100-day mark, MSNBC had war reporter Richard Engel and anchor Tamron Hall interview MSNBC analyst Barry McCaffrey, who CJR.org‘s Clint Hendler (4/29/09) calls “the retired army general whose many conflicts of interest have been analyzed by David Barstow’s now-Pulitzer Prize winning reporting for the New York Times.” When asked […]
