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Ken Auletta ponders this question in the New Yorker. An excerpt: … Within Dow Jones there was both ambivalence and anger. “I have conflicting, competing worries, and conflicting, competing hopes,” (Managing editor Paul) Steiger told me on May 15th, the day that he turned over his office to (his successor Marcus) Brauchli. He worried that Dow Jones [...]
Tue, July 3 2007 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
From the NYT: Eighteen young men charged in the assassination of the newspaper editor Hrant Dink went on trial here on Monday in what has been described as a test of the rule of law in Turkey. Mr. Dink, a Turkish citizen of Armenian descent, was shot dead in front of his office on Jan. [...]
Tue, July 3 2007 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
Ken Silverstein posed as the representative of a London-based energy company with interests in Turkmenistan that wanted to buff the image of the former cult-of-personality state. He found Washington lobbyists tripping over themselves to represent the corrupt petrocracy. After Harper’s magazine published the story, there were no shortage of MSM critics tut-tutting about Silverstein’s tactic. [...]