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Dear Stephen Strong: Congrats on the cool recruitment special targeted at war age teens.
On the Listening Post this week, The New York Times climb-down over Guantanamo, and the pursuit of journalism on Twitter.
President Obama reaches out to the Middle East but refuses to release unseen torture photos.
| By Norman Soloman The conventional wisdom of press and state insists that the US war effort must do more than go on - it must escalate - in the name of human decency. |
| By Laura Flanders, GritTV Joining Laura Flanders to dicuss the week in media are Danny Schechter, Allison Kilkenny, Andrew Golis. |
| By Daniel Schulman, Mother Jones Hint: He was a Bush aide who cooked up a phony pitch for the Iraq War. |
| By Air America Ron Kuby talks to Greg Mitchell, editor of "Editor and Publisher" magazine about his decision to not report on New York Times' reporter David Rohde's kidnapping. |
| By Jeff Stein, CQ Politics The New York Times was prepared to pay Taliban kidnappers a $5 million ransom to free its reporter David S. Rohde, who escaped Friday after seven months of captivity. |
| By MediaChannel Guests this week: Eric Nadler and Bob Cohen, producers of Anthrax War, new investigative film on Biowar. |
| By Michael Hastings, True Slant To be taken seriously, you had to be on board for the war. And you had career "incentives" to do so. |
Dear Stephen Strong: Congrats on the cool recruitment special targeted at war age teens.
On the Listening Post this week, The New York Times climb-down over Guantanamo, and the pursuit of journalism on Twitter.
President Obama reaches out to the Middle East but refuses to release unseen torture photos.
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