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Special Report: Ivins Anthrax Case Another Black Eye for Network News

Posted by BradBlog on 14 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: North America, Commentary, Pentagon, FBI, U.S. Military, Security, Terror

In covering one of the most historic criminal investigations in our nation’s history, the worst bioterrorism attack on U.S. soil, the overall tenor and quality of network reporting has been nothing short of disgraceful.

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Ross Responds to ‘Vital Questions’ About Anthrax Report

Posted by Media Bistro on 07 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: News, North America, Iraq War, Terror

By TVNewser, Media Bistro
TVNewser spoke with ABC’s Brian Ross, the lead reporter on the anthrax stories in late 2001. He explains in detail, what happened then and what it means now.

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BradBlog Exclusive: Government’s Purported ‘Anthrax Killer’ Was a Registered Democrat

Posted by BradBlog on 05 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: News, North America, Iraq War, Terror

By Brad Friedman, BradBlog
Given the similarities in the perceived political ideology among the targeted victims of the anthrax letters, the political affiliation or leanings of whoever was responsible for the attacks would seem key to the government’s still-undisclosed case. Yet that aspect continues to be largely overlooked in the media coverage since Ivins’ death.

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A Serbian Journalist Reflects on The Arrest of Radovan Karadzic

Posted by Jelena Grujic on 05 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: Europe, Commentary, War Watch, Terror

We Serbians have just sent one more guy down the road to the valley of the War Criminals. Radovan Karadzic is finally imprisoned…

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Vital unresolved anthrax questions and ABC News

Posted by Salon on 01 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: News, North America, Cheney, U.S. Military, USPS, ABC News, Security, Terror, propaganda, Agenda Setting

By Glenn Greenwald, Salon
ABC News should reveal who concocted and fed them the false “Saddam/anthrax” reports. This is one of the most extreme journalistic scandals that exists, and it deserves a lot more debate and attention than it has received thus far.

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On The Ground: The Suicide Bomber

Posted by Columbia Journalism Review on 10 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: News, Iraq War, Terror

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By Paul McLeary, CJR
A long day at combat outpost IBA.

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Video from Burma: SHOOT ON SIGHT

Posted by MediaChannel on 04 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: Asia, VIDEO, Activism, United Nations, Terror, Human Rights

Video advocates BURMA ISSUES travel deep into the jungles of eastern Burma to document one of the world’s most urgent and most forgotten emergencies. To ACT NOW visit: www.witness.org/shootonsight

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Survival Skills For Iraqi Reporters

Posted by ABC News on 24 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: News, Media Freedom, Journalism, Middle East, Television, Iraq War, U.S. Military, ABC News, Terror

By Sameer N. Yacoub, ABC News
With many Iraqi journalists slain since 2003, the Iraqi Journalists Union is planning to offer martial arts and survival courses to help its members cope with the risks of life in this country.

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Saddam Did 9/11 — One-Third of Americans Believe the Big Lie

Posted by PR Watch on 11 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: News, Bias, Iraq War, United Nations, Terror

By PR Watch
An important New York Times/CBS News survey finds that six years after the terror attacks of 9/11, “33 percent of all Americans, including 40 percent of Republicans and 27 percent of Democrats, say Saddam Hussein was personally involved.”

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Fox News Has A Beef…

Posted by Columbia Journalism Review on 30 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: News, Fox News, Middle East, Iraq War, CIA, Terror

By Liz Cox Barrett, CJR
Like Frankenstein, Fox News disclaimed a monster of its own making.

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Point, Click… Eavesdrop: How the FBI Wiretap Net Operates

Posted by Wired on 29 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: News, US, Politics, Technology, FBI, Policy, Telecommunications, Security, Democracy, Terror, privacy

By Ryan Singel, Wired
The FBI has quietly built a sophisticated, point-and-click surveillance system that performs instant wiretaps on almost any communications device.

Popularity: 4% [?]

Four Charged in Politkovskaya Murder

Posted by Moscow Times on 29 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: News, RU, Action, Terror

By David Nowak, Moscow Times
Prosecutors have charged four of the ten suspects arrested in the murder of Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya, a lawyer for one of the suspects said Tuesday.

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CBS News Translator Slain By Insurgents

Posted by CBS News on 28 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: News, CBS, Journalism, Iraq War, Terror

By Lara Logan, CBS News
Anwar Abbas Lafta, an Iraqi who worked as a translator for CBS News in Baghdad, has been abducted and slain by insurgents. He became the third CBS News employee to be killed in the war.

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Threats To Journalism Are Also Threats To Society

Posted by San Jose Mercury News on 27 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: News, Fox News, Media Freedom, Journalism, Middle East, Television, BBC, Israel/Palestine, Terror

By Steve Centanni, San Jose Mercury News
At least 81 journalists were killed in 2006 in 21 countries, and at least 56 journalists were kidnapped…”I was one of them.”

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Monster attack steals user data

Posted by BBC News on 22 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: News, Technology, Security, Terror, privacy

By BBC News
US job website Monster.com has suffered an online attack with the personal data of hundreds of thousands of users stolen, says a security firm.

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