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How the media can prevent another Iraq,

By Nico Pitney on Feb 5th, 2007 at 4:45 pm

How the media can prevent another Iraq,

by Dan Froomkin. (Glenn Greenwald calls it “a superb list of basic journalistic rules which ought not be controversial but which are nonetheless routinely violated by our nation’s press corps. Just fathom how much more effective and meaningful our media would be if they complied with these minimal guidelines.”)

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14 Responses to “How the media can prevent another Iraq,”

pux phil says:

All the while TP reports and twists its own biased version of the news as has been evidenced tima and time again on the site.
February 5th, 2007 at 4:52 pm
Yikes says:

Now how are those minimal guidelines going to sell more papers?
February 5th, 2007 at 4:56 pm
Liberal in New Mexico says:

The media can do the right thing by reporting IMPARTIAL NEWS and not taking sides. The way they sided up to one another so eager to kiss the President’s luscious backside this past five years is enough to sicken a hardened pervert.
#1- TP only plays hardball with the rest of the media. The New York Times, nonwithstanding. Hardball, Meet The Press; they’ve all been guilty. Stick to the facts.
February 5th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
Loonie says:

“How the media can prevent another Iraq”

Do their jobs.

The end
February 5th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
Zooey says:

Great list by Froomkin.

Maybe I’m assuming too much thinking that journalists are taught those things in journalism school — or that they’re motivated to remember them. $$$
February 5th, 2007 at 5:01 pm
Tom3 says:

Rupert Murdoch just admitted that his News Corp tried to “shape the agenda” on the war. Obviously these basic rules are never going to be pinned up on the wall at FOX News.
February 5th, 2007 at 5:12 pm
katy says:

i recommend sending that article to all your local (and otherwise) newspaper offices…
February 5th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
Gerald Gibson Jr says:

Journalists that risk themselves to tell the truth should be held up as heros to set an example for those that come after them.

Humanity is killing itself. Sometimes people speak out… most of the time they are crusified… sometimes literally… just look up what happened to this guy named jesus when he tried to speak out against his leaders.
February 5th, 2007 at 5:19 pm
Zooey says:

If the media — print and television — had been doing their job, this country wouldn’t be in the state it is now. BushCo could never had succeeded without the complicity of the media.
February 5th, 2007 at 5:26 pm
Tobey Tall says:

ITS STARTED FOLKS

At least 47 dead as tanks, troops deploy in Baghdad

Iraqi and US troops pressed closer to a long-announced battle against sectarian carnage in Baghdad that has pushed Iraq toward civil war, as at least 47 people died in another surge of brutality.

The fresh bloodshed came in the wake of nearly 200 deaths over the weekend, mostly in the war-torn capital.

Iraqi forces cranked up security Monday in some volatile Baghdad districts on the eastern side of the Tigris river, an AFP photographer reported.

Iraqi soldiers and National Guard policemen were stationed on the capital’s main eastern highway leading to the Shiite militia bastion of Sadr City, a repeated target of insurgents.

Tanks, armoured vehicles and National Guard police manned various locations on the road to Sadr City and in some other districts.
February 5th, 2007 at 5:29 pm
Tobey Tall says:

The link http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=161684
February 5th, 2007 at 5:30 pm
Marie says:

Journalism has been cowering in the corner in the last 6 years or more. The corporate consolidation of all the media has allowed their Republican owners, whose money put Bush into office, to control the public news. Reporters and investigative journalists are losing their jobs, and of those who remain, many feel threatened into following company guidelines. It’s all about advertising, it’s all about wrapping the news into tidy little bundles that sell copy and don’t upset too many people, particularly the White House, and the stockholders who worship Bush&Co. Journalism is a venue for profit, it is no longer the altruistic, fourth estate.
February 5th, 2007 at 6:45 pm
Marie says:

I read two papers – Chicago Tribune and Daily Herald (suburban), both are definitely Republican, each one prints the occasional letter of dissent, but primarily the letters are lined up with the editorial boards, who would never advocate a liberal perspective. The pages are filled with stories from AP and wire services, and fewer articles from individual reporters; the greater part of the paper is advertising.
Local TV news is still “if it bleeds, it leads” car accidents, fires, drug busts, and interviews with neighbors near those accidents and fires. CableTV news is delivered from anchors who do little to disguise their political bias, and they are encouraged by their owners, who own the papers and the news magazines.
February 5th, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Martin of Earth says:

For those in any doubt:

RUPERT MURDOCH: “With our newspapers, we have indeed supported Bush’s foreign policy. And we remain committed that way.”

It’s here: http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2004/s1228480.htm

Martin Gifford
February 5th, 2007 at 10:59 pm

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