Two journalists, two different views on how the media failed to do their jobs in the months prior to the invasion of Iraq. On CNBC last week, CNN’s Christiane Amanpour railed about the Bush administration’s arguments for invading Iraq, branding it “disinformation at the highest levels” and she scolded journalists “intimidated by the administration and its foot soldiers at Fox News,” which led to “a climate of fear and self-censorship.” But in a new book excerpted Monday on the Web site of Editor & Publisher magazine, John Burns, the New York Times reporter stationed in Baghdad during the war, expressed outrage toward Western reporters who helped conceal the awfulness of Saddam’s despotic tyranny in order to protect their access to the Iraqi capital, calling it “corruption” and “a gross abdication of responsibility.”
Amanpour made her allegations during a taped appearance last Wednesday night on CNBC’s 10pm EDT Topic A with Tina Brown, where she sat alongside liberal author Al Franken and former Pentagon spokeswoman Victoria Clarke.
USA Today’s Peter Johnson, who first reported Amanpour’s charges, included this humorous reaction from Fox News spokeswoman Irena Briganti: "Given the choice, it's better to be viewed as a foot soldier for Bush than a spokeswoman for al-Qaeda."
-Media Research Center
Irena couldn't drink Christiane's bath water out of a shoe
Re: Better to be Bush's footsoldier than al-Qaeda spokeswoman -- run n gun
| Posted by Nanker Phelge ® , Sep 16,2003,15:33 |
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So which bleached blonde neocon on Fox is she? CA is one of the world's most respected journalists...you know, a journalist. Oh yeah, they don't actually have those on Fox. Now go back to watching the lies this dictatorial administration spews out RNG. Better yet, grab a rifle and head over there to fight Dubyah's oil war for him if you are so gung ho.
Another one dies for the cause
Re: Irena couldn't drink Christiane's bath water out of a shoe -- Nanker Phelge
| Posted by Lysander Spooner ® , Sep 16,2003,18:16 |
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Six months later, I'm still wondering what that cause is. The Defense Department says Sgt. First Class William Bennett leaves his wife, Allison, and son, Seth. Bennett was 35.
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