Michael Gordon trains his stenographer weapons on Iran

Salon by Glenn Greenwald | Jul. 2, 2007 (Opinion)

The Bush administration's most reliable pro-surge "reporter," Michael Gordon of The New York Times, this morning filed an article -- headlined: "U.S. Ties Iranians to Iraq Attack That Killed G.I.'s" -- that might be the most war-fueling article yet with regard to Iran. Gordon's article is 23 paragraphs long, and makes some of the most inflammatory accusations against Iran imaginable. This is the first paragraph: Full Story »

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Mark Monday
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 by Mark Monday - Oct. 1, 2008

"Keepin' 'em honest" is as much about reporters as it is about the people that reporters quote. In view of the Judith Miller debacle from the same paper, this piece raises red flags. One hopes the reportage was not as slipshod and source-serving as the blog suggests, but the reported changes to the story -- after it was first published and unloosed on the public -- are hardly reasons to give the Times the benefit of all doubt.

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