Military Atrocities Less Newsworthy Than Right-Wing Fantasies

Press follows smears of New Republic as Nation's evidence of abuse ignored

The Nation's investigation into the U.S. occupation's impact on Iraqi civilians (7/30/07) and a series of columns by a U.S. soldier published in the New Republic (2/5/07, 6/4/07, 7/23/07) have given media access to compelling new documentation of egregious behavior by U.S. troops in Iraq. The New York Times and Washington Post have responded by paying much less attention to the scrupulously documented evidence of these abuses in the Nation and focusing on ... Full Story »

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Dwight Rousu
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by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 1, 2008

The reporting bias and genuflecting toward right wing organized chirping points is an important topic to report and to provide push-back to the Times and Post. Fairly straightforward, though the prose could sparkle a bit more.

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by Chris J. Breisch - Oct. 1, 2008

Given that the primary source of these stories of atrocities has been shown to be less than honest (Google 'Beauchamp Recants'), it's hard to give any credence to any story based upon it.

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