Consortium News
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Consortium News is a web site founded by editor Robert Parry in 1995, back in the "early days" of the modern Internet. The site was meant to be "a home for important, well-reported stories that weren't welcome in the O.J. Simpson-obsessed, conventional-wisdom-driven national news media of that time." According to the web site description, Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories in the 1980s for the Associated Press and Newsweek. His new book, Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq, can be ordered at secrecyandprivilege.com. It's also available at Amazon... More » (SourceConsortium News)
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Audience Very small audience (10K or less) (English)
Formats Opinion, News Analysis, Special Report, News Report, Editorial, Blog Post...
Politics Left (50%), Center (18%), Not Applicable (18%), Not Sure (9%), Neutral (5%) (22 reviews)
Authors Robert Parry, Alice Cherbonnier, Brent Budowsky, Coleen Rowley, Ray McGovern, Jason Leopold, TheRealNews.com, Bill Moyers...
Media Online | Publication
Quality Tags Newsworthy, Factual, Not Balanced, Not Impartial, Clear, Honest, Not Newsworthy...
Story Tags bush, cheney, clinton, ethics, impeachment, iraq, lies, mccain, al gore, enron...
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Reviewed by Dwight Rousu, Fabrice Florin, Roland F. Hirsch, Kaizar Campwala, Ben Ross, Mark Monday...
Edited by Fabrice Florin
Last Edit May. 30, 2006
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