Iraq: The 2% Truth


	Iraq: The 2% Truth

jklugman

9-17-2006 7:05 PM

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iraq, fubar, civil-war, marc cooper, media, journalism

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b106ad73-61dc-42a2-8b1f-6cb9eecb2274/5634A744-1D63-4948-BF5C-F239A04C9163/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://marccooper.com/iraq-the-2-truth/" href="http://marccooper.com/iraq-the-2-truth/" style="font-size: 11px;">marccooper.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://marccooper.com/iraq-the-2-truth/"><P>Beyond the fulminations and whimpers of the Bushies over a biased media, it seems that if anything the American press has been too polite in describing the catastophe underway in Iraq.</p> <P>Check out this<A href="http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003122985"> hair-raising piece</A>  in <EM>Editor and Publisher</EM> based on a talk by veteran <EM>NYTimes</EM> war reporter <STRONG>Dexter Filkins</STRONG> who says that the anarchy and bloodshed sweeping Iraq has placed 98% of Iraq "off-limts" to reporters. Asked his advice he would offer a reporter heading to Iraq, he simply said "don't go."</p> <P>Don't go, because you can hardly report anything at all. Even gettting out of a vehicle puts the life of a Western reporter at risk.  Just to get what news from Iraq that the NYT currenty collects requires the hiring, literally of a small army:</p> <BLOCKQUOTE><P><EM><FONT class="text"><DIV>According to Filkins, the New York Times is burning through money "like jet fuel" simply to securely maintain its operations in the country.</DIV></FONT></EM></P></BLOCKQUOTE></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/5634A744-1D63-4948-BF5C-F239A04C9163/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>