CENTCOM says AP’s "Iraqi police source" isn’t Iraqi police Contributed by Bill Faith
(Part 7 -- Continued from post.)
Jules Critendon
The pajama-clad ranks of conservative bloggers are officially here as effective media watchdogs, having forced Dan Rather's retirement; having forced Reuters and other news agencies to come to terms with the propaganda they were shilling for terrorists in Lebanon; and having now prompted action from both the United States military and the Iraqi Interior Ministry after evidence of fraudulent war crimes reports by the Associated Press.
It is a beautiful phenomenon to observe.
The Associated Press, in its monopoly status, feels justifiably insulated from these annoying attacks. The AP is a monopoly, and high-level news executives, many of whom share the AP's anti-war and anti-administration sentiments, are likely to look at the latest scandal as just another one of the periodic speed bumps all news organizations encounter. So the question becomes, is the right half of the blogosphere capable of producing a sufficient stink to lead to more substantive results? Changes at the Associated Press, or perhaps even the emergence of a competitive U.S. wire service that will approach the news in a manner that is more ... fair and balanced.
Here is my Boston Herald column
One cautionary note. ...
Contributed by Bill Faith on December 3, 2006 at 01:44 PM in , , , |