Embedded Only While In Bed with the U.S. Government
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Apparently the U.S. government is only in favor of embedded reporters when it serves its own purposes.
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Iraqis Stand Up
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British war photographer Sean Smith spent nearly six weeks with the 101st Division of the U.S. army in Iraq and has produced an eloquent short film which explodes the myth around the claims that U.S.-trained Iraqis are preparing to take control of their own country.
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Pentagon OK's Lincoln Group Propaganda
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A U.S.
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Stauber On Book Tour with "The Best War Ever"
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CMD executive director John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton, co-authors of The Best War Ever: Lies, Damned Lies and the Mess in Iraq, have been barnstorming the country talking in classrooms, bookstores, homes, on radio and TV programs, and i
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Stymied by Their Own Spin
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Defense Contractor Gets Defensive at Documentary
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Iraqi Journalists: Not So Liberated
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"Under a broad new set of laws criminalizing speech that ridicules the government or its officials, some resurrected verbatim from Saddam Hussein's penal code, roughly a dozen Iraqi journalists have been charged with offending public officials in the past year," reports Paul von Zielbauer. "Three journalists for a small newspaper in southeastern Iraq are being tried ... for articles last year that accused a provincial governor, local judges and police officials of corruption. ... On Sept.
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Moving Foreign Investment Forward: A Strange PR Pick for Iraqi Kurdistan
Some weeks are slow on Move America Forward's email list. Others are bustling. September 15 to 21, 2006, was an example of the latter. Six emails were sent, including two from "The Other Iraq," at the address "KDC@RMRWest.Net."
The emails are noteworthy because they illustrate synergy between two clients of the Republican-associated Sacramento public relations firm Russo Marsh & Rogers (RM&R): Move America Forward, a conservative cheerleader for the Bush administration's "war on terror," and the Kurdistan Development Corporation, an "investment holding and tradings company" formed in partnership with the Kurdistan Regional Government of northern Iraq (and presumably the KDC of the above email address).
The first of the "other Iraq" emails began, "We wanted to send you this short note to let you know that a delegation from Iraqi Kurdistan is back in the United States - continuing our campaign to tell the American public about 'The Other Iraq.'"
Iraq "98 Percent Off-Limits" for Press Corps
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"Everyone is kind of groping around in the dark," says New York Times Baghdad correspondent Dexter Filkins on his return from reporting in Iraq. Despite employing 70 Iraqi staffers, the civil war there (Filkins doesn't hedge--"Yeah, sure" it's a civil war) has meant the Times cannot safely access stories. Its own five correspondents primarily spend their time pasting together reports by the Iraqi staff, protected by a small army of 45 security guards, armored cars, and belt-fed rooftop machine guns.
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