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By: The Flash Point Blog » Blog Archive » NYT on the Press, The Pentagon, and the War in Iraq

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:40:51 +0000

[...] f standards reported in the Times today, journalists (with exceptions like James Landay and Warren Strobel, then at Knigh [...]

By: zimmett

zimmett — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 14:45:46 +0000

I watched Bill Moyer’s report on the war in Iraq last evening. Jonathan Landay, Warren Strobel are centainly very good reporters that aimed at getting this Iraq War thing right. It’s too bad that other media i.e. reporters did not see the truth about the Iraq conflict. IT sort of reminded me of the Woodward, Bernstein and Watergate
affair so many years ago. I just wish that our so called media would get things right.

By: stimp

stimp — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 19:31:04 +0000

The CIA new about the pakistani nuclear program.
Read about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Qadeer_Khan who was released by the netherlands on request of the CIA because the wanted to follow him.

By: JonGarfunkel

JonGarfunkel — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 05:01:10 +0000

Just to keep score here:

jspoteet– Screw blogs and podcasts for the moment: will you recognize two good journalists when you see them?
Three people want a show to feature with Landay and Strobel. What’s the response?

See the Miller show thread, which I ended with
a poetic coda to press this point.

By: bloggeddown

bloggeddown — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 23:14:43 +0000

A show like this would be fascinating –
to hear the internal mechanics of MANAGEMENT at K-R that allows this

“I donâ€™t know how else to put it, but we got it right because we were doing our job. â€¦ We decided that there is no decision graver, more serious, than that of committing the bloood and treasure of the nation to war. â€¦ We saw it as our responsibility to look at the case and the justifications, to verify what the President was telling his people.”

to happen.

People like Landay and Strobel get it right, – they are empowered to make it happen. I would like to ask them questions about their management.

By: jspoteet

jspoteet — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 20:30:00 +0000

There may be no subject as central to American politics today than the devolution of the press corps into propaganda parrots.

The issue is not just how and why 2 young journalists got it right. But how the subservience of the New York media, post 9-11, has eroded their credibility.

Will Podcasts and Blogs replace the NYT as the source â€œof recordâ€??

Or will these tools, like the choices in TV, Radio and Newspapers, just make it easier for us to hear what we want to hear?

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 15:21:00 +0000

More interviews with Landay, Strobel and a bunch of other media types on Iraq here. (BTW, Kent Bye, the blogger/filmmaker who conducted the interviews, might make an interesting interview himself).

By: The Poor Man Institute » They done good

The Poor Man Institute » They done good — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 13:18:43 +0000

[...] ld do a balancing piece on Knight-Ridder reporters Jonathan Landay and Warren Strobel, who did their fucking jobs. I’m sure FOX’s viewers would be heartened [...]

By: neuropet

neuropet — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 01:00:04 +0000

I second the motion. The quality of the K-R washington bureau on WMD was amazing. This story has legs and these guys deserve to be made folk hero’s.

By: JonGarfunkel

JonGarfunkel — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 00:53:32 +0000

Brendan– This is a jewel of find. I would have certainly made time to listen to the show if you had this team on the air. Jon