Independent Press
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Last Modified: 04/18/06
Link: The Anti-Torture Bill and Senator McCain
Summary: John McCain calls for the Army Field Manual to serve as official guide on investigations of 'enemy combants' or in camps around the world and for tghis, he's called an 'arrogant fool."
But wait.... here's
But wait.... here's what rightwingnews.com has to say about the 'anti-torture' bill
Link: Valerie Plame
Summary: Plame and her husband former Ambassador Joe Wilson
Link: The Guardian Unlimited: Bush's Other War
Summary: Sidney Blumenthal (The Clinton Wars) delves into the role misinformation plays in the administration's ongoing attempt to frame and 'reframe' Iraq.
Link: Miller Time Again: February 2004
Summary: Just three years later New York Times repoter Judith Miller takes the heat for allowing the White House to 'play her' to publicize its politically expedient version of "Why Iraq?"
Link: Kidnappers set date for execution of US journalist
Summary: As pictures of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl circulated freely on the web and in newspapers across the world, most editors drew the line at publishing the video of Pearl's beheading... sans pressure from the government. Yet ...
Link: The Wrong Journalistic Decision (blogs)
Summary: The Washington Post's recent decision to hold off on publishing information about the CIA's network of prisons in Eastern Europe for suspected Al Qaeda terrorists has much in common with the New York Times acceeding to JFKs request to not print information on the Bay of Pigs invasion in the 1960s. True, but ...
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What's the real story? It's becoming more and more difficult to find a news source you can trust. The political climate in America has so adroitly shaped our interpretation of media, that catch phrases such as the 'liberal New York Times" have become nearly synonymous with our internalized identification of newspapers, tv and radio stations, and web sites.
