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cranston36
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 Posted: 03/02/06 - 20:42 Post subject: Remember Miss Miller?
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Judith Miller retired with good pay from the New York Times.
She has been made famous recently by being jailed for not revealing who told her that Valerie Plame was a CIA agent.
That’s not all she did for the newspaper.
She won a Pulitzer prize in 2001 for reporting on global terrorism.
Apparently a lot of the material she produced was based on incorrect information.
It seems like she fooled her editor.
Media that had come to rely on the newspaper repeated and amplified what this one apparently irresponsible reporter wrote.
The result stares us in the face. Over 2,000 Americans dead in Iraq along with tens of thousands wounded and mutilated. Osama Bin Laden is still missing and oil companies tied to his family continue to prosper.
Miller wasn’t the first to fool the New York Times.
In 1874 the New York Herald ran a hoax article they hoped would spur improvements in the Central Park Zoo. The Herald reported several animals escaped and rampaged through Manhattan injuring more than two hundred and killing forty-nine.
The story goes that New York Times editor George Williams complained to the police because they tipped off the Herald but didn’t tell him.
As for politicians whining about the power of the press I think this story is a good example of how weak it can be. It was over 120 years before any improvements were made to the Central Park Zoo.
How long will American forces have to stay in Iraq?
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Yellow Journalist
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Posted: 03/03/06 - 09:04 Post subject:
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All I get from this cut & paste is that Judith Miller is to blame for Iraqi war casualties..
How factual is that? It isnt..
American forces will be in Iraq for some time. Weve outsourced our Military so to speak.
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xizorr
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Posted: 03/03/06 - 13:50 Post subject:
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Don't forget about Orson Welles, who fooled us into the Aliens were invading New York state. I don't think we have done anything to keep aliens from invading yet.
But I'm sure it helped get us into world war II. Japanese, Germans, aliens they all look a like. I bet thats why we dropped the bomb on Japan to get back at them for invading New York not Perl Harbor.
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xizorr
Luke Warm
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Posted: 03/03/06 - 13:51 Post subject:
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dbl post
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Brael
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Posted: 03/03/06 - 14:41 Post subject: Re: Remember Miss Miller?
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| cranston36 wrote: | Judith Miller retired with good pay from the New York Times.
She has been made famous recently by being jailed for not revealing who told her that Valerie Plame was a CIA agent.
That’s not all she did for the newspaper.
She won a Pulitzer prize in 2001 for reporting on global terrorism.
Apparently a lot of the material she produced was based on incorrect information.
It seems like she fooled her editor.
Media that had come to rely on the newspaper repeated and amplified what this one apparently irresponsible reporter wrote.
The result stares us in the face. Over 2,000 Americans dead in Iraq along with tens of thousands wounded and mutilated. Osama Bin Laden is still missing and oil companies tied to his family continue to prosper.
Miller wasn’t the first to fool the New York Times.
In 1874 the New York Herald ran a hoax article they hoped would spur improvements in the Central Park Zoo. The Herald reported several animals escaped and rampaged through Manhattan injuring more than two hundred and killing forty-nine.
The story goes that New York Times editor George Williams complained to the police because they tipped off the Herald but didn’t tell him.
As for politicians whining about the power of the press I think this story is a good example of how weak it can be. It was over 120 years before any improvements were made to the Central Park Zoo.
How long will American forces have to stay in Iraq? |
People like you are a threat to the US.
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Ishmael
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Posted: 03/03/06 - 14:44 Post subject:
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always use condoms or lumbergs might happen
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Zaeth
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Posted: 03/08/06 - 20:35 Post subject: Re: Remember Miss Miller?
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| cranston36 wrote: | | How long will American forces have to stay in Iraq? |
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