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Salon's Aaron Kinney rounds up reaction from the U.S. conservative commentariat on the indictment of “Scooter” Libby in the Plamegate affair. Some excerpts: (free with a day pass) Reaction from conservative pundits to the news of “Scooter” Libby's indictment on Friday varied — some stuck with positive spin, but a number of others struck a [...]
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The NYT's publisher says his paper didn't do a good enough job of correcting reports that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had WMDs, but Arthur Sulzberger Jr. also refused to point a finger at beleaguered reporter Judith Miller, who wrote many of them. I will address what I see as some major spinning in that statement. [...]
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The city of Newark, N.J. will pay a weekly paper $100,000 US to print some good news about the many positive things happening in that burgh. Some excerpts from the Oct. 25 NYT story: This month, the city hired Legacy Media Group, the parent company of Visions Metro Weekly, a free tabloid with circulation of 25,000, to [...]
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This NYT story hypothesizes that if the I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby Plamegate charges make it to trial, it could come down to whether the jury believes Scooter or the journos. An excerpt: … It is all but unheard of for reporters to turn publicly on their sources or for prosecutors to succeed in conscripting members of [...]
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