June 30, 2003 The affair of Jessica Lynch, the U.S. Army private who was injured in Iraq and rescued in a commando raid, seems unrelated to monopoly control of the media. But the handling of her story offers good reason to cheer Senate elders for moving to reverse the ideologically besotted Federal Communications Commission decision […]
Tag: Iraq war
What was CNN protecting when it sat on news of Saddam’s brutality?
May 5. 2003 In an extraordinary confession last month, CNN’s news chief wrote that during his dozen visits to Baghad since the first Gulf War he personally learned of savagery inflicted on ordinary Iraqis — among them his own employees — that CNN did not report for fear of reprisals against innocents. Eason Jordan titled […]
Covering the War, Missing the Story
April 21, 2003 The war in Iraq gave U.S. media the chance to appear before millions of viewers just as they most wishfully imagine themselves: brave, dedicated bearers of the news. Integrated into advance military units under the Pentagon’s embedding program, reporters slogged it out under fire alongside GIs and Marines, full partners in the […]
