October 20, 2008

A marriage made in heaven: Miller and Fox

Cue the violins... Howard Kurtz reports that Fox News has hired disgraced propagandist Judy Miller to do on-air analysis and write for their website. (HT: Think Progress's Amanda, who gives...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 01:48 PM | Fulltext link (2 comments)

October 13, 2008

Congrats to Paul Krugman

Huge congratulations on his winning the Nobel Prize for Economics. It turns out it's for work he did quite a while ago on trade patterns and economic geography. I haven't...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 07:19 PM | Fulltext link (1 comments)

October 06, 2008

Taleban/Talabani: There's a difference?

WaPo columnist E.J. Dionne gets paid a hefty salary and gets a lot of public respect for his claimed ability to opine knowledgeably about current affairs. But on Friday, he...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:01 AM | Fulltext link (4 comments)

May 21, 2008

AP's flawed 'Factbox' about Golan

Who compiles this stuff, anyway? As a supposed aid to people seeking to understand the background to the latest news about the proximity talks between Syria and Israel in Turkey,...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:50 PM | Fulltext link (15 comments)

May 17, 2008

Western MSM on Asian disasters, contd.

I see that China Hand has posted an excellent analysis of the western MSM's highly politicized (and sometimes just plain inaccurate) reporting on the "Western aid workers and Myanmar" story,...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:54 AM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

April 17, 2008

WaPo pulls a Lee Bollinger on Mahmoud Zahhar

Today's WaPo contains a hard-hitting op-ed from Hamas's Mahmoud Zahhar, the foreign minister in the Gaza-based PA caretaker government. Zahhar is leading a six-man Hamas delegation that yesterday crossed from...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:55 AM | Fulltext link (4 comments)

April 13, 2008

Carter quite right-- On Olympics, Hamas, and Nepali elections

I just watched this clip of George Stephanopoulos's interview with Nobel Peace Laureate and former US president Jimmy Carter this morning. (Complete transcript here.) Carter is such a wise, inspirational...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 06:44 PM | Fulltext link (7 comments)

October 01, 2007

T. Friedman calls for end to "GWOT"; admits own fallibility!

Juan Cole had a generally good commentary on the column that T-Fed wrote yesterday calling for an end to the GWOT. Juan zeroed in on the "bad for business" aspects...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:57 AM | Fulltext link (26 comments)

July 08, 2007

NYT calls for exit from Iraq!!!

The editorial team of the New York Times finally, today, wrote this (text also here): It is time for the United States to leave Iraq, without any more delay than...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 03:40 PM | Fulltext link (11 comments)

June 16, 2007

Kimberly Dozier: A Year Later

It has been just over a year since Kimberly Dozier, CBS News correspondent, was critically wounded in Iraq. JWN regulars may recall a tribute here, reflecting on her University of...
Posted by Scott Harrop at 06:25 PM | Fulltext link (11 comments)

April 18, 2007

Kamiya on the US MSM and Iraq

Belatedly, a serious hat-tip to Salon's Gary Kamiya for the very thoughtful analysis he wrote last week on the topic of Iraq: Why the [U.S.] media failed. His contention-- based...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 07:43 AM | Fulltext link (6 comments)

February 11, 2007

CNN's General cheerleader squad: Marx, Shepard, & Grange

Memo to John Stewart - host of the Comedy Channel's Daily Show: If you need new material, check out the media generals on CNN. Since at least 2003, CNN has...
Posted by Scott Harrop at 11:29 PM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

January 12, 2007

Happy anniversary, Dan Froomkin!

Sometimes-- today, for example,-- when I read Dan Froomkin's online digest of the day's major US news coverage, I think, "Oh my G-d, why did I spend two hours this...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 02:26 PM | Fulltext link (3 comments)

December 19, 2006

"IraqSlogger" warmly endorsing crude propaganda

I am not going to spend very much longer hanging around the dank confines of the IraqSlogger site. Today, they put up a post with the embedded video of a...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:33 PM | Fulltext link (26 comments)

December 18, 2006

Power of the JWN "pen": IraqSlogger, Pt. 2

Last Thursday I published this short post about the new website IraqSlogger. I noted that while some of the site's content seemed interesting, other portions did not... But more importantly,...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:28 PM | Fulltext link (22 comments)

December 14, 2006

What is IraqSlogger?

IraqSlogger is a new website, about to be officially "launched" next week, but already doing lots of outreach and promo. I was told about it by Nir Rosen, a feisty...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 11:23 AM | Fulltext link (23 comments)

November 17, 2006

US media and the demand for withdrawal from Iraq

Writing for Truthout yesterday, Norman Solomon had an interesting different take on the Michael Gordon/Mark Mazzetti article in yesterday's NYT that I posted about here, yesterday. Solomon's argument-- by looking...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:45 AM | Fulltext link (9 comments)

June 02, 2006

Kimberly Dozier: A Tribute

Those of us who knew Kimberly Dozier as a University of Virginia graduate student gasped when we learned that she was critically wounded, on Memorial Day while working as a...
Posted by Scott Harrop at 11:01 PM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

May 31, 2006

Faiza in The Daily Star

Faiza has an eloquent and well-argued critique of the major US media on the op-ed pages of The Daily Star today. Actually, right next to it is an intriguing piece...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 12:02 PM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

February 17, 2006

Some good sense from Tom Friedman

New York Times uber-columnist Tom Friedman has a pretty good column in today's paper. Basically he's urging everyone in Israel and the US (perhaps especially the US) not to get...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 08:54 AM | Fulltext link (40 comments)

November 06, 2005

Red carpet for Chalabi

Well, Ahmad Chalabi's going to be coming to Washington soon. And who is rolling out the red carpet for his "rehabilitation" there but... his old pal at the WaPo, Jim...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:37 AM | Fulltext link (10 comments)

October 23, 2005

The journalist's nightmare: how it ended for Rory

Yesterday, the Guardian had a tautly written first-person account by Rory Carroll, of what happened during and at the end of his recent kidnaping in Iraq. Carroll was seized in...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:07 AM | Fulltext link (2 comments)

October 19, 2005

Judy Miller and the U.N.

The whole sorry story of NYT pseudo-journo Judy Miller and her entanglement in disinformation campaigns concerning Iraq's alleged WMD arsenal, that were designed to jerk the Bush administration into invading...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:37 PM | Fulltext link (10 comments)

September 25, 2005

'The Nation' rips off JWN story?

As I noted here on Sept 21, Mark Glaser had just then put a well-researched piece up on Online Journalism Review about the "body part porn" story that I wrote...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 03:08 PM | Fulltext link (10 comments)

September 21, 2005

O.J.R. on the body part porn story

Mark Glaser got a good, well-researched story up onto Online Journalism Review yesterday about the pornsite Nowthatsfuckedup.com, that I wrote about at the end of August, here and here. He...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 07:12 AM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

August 08, 2005

Steven Vincent plot thickens

It is an outrage that Steven Vincent was killed and his translator, Nour al-Khal, was shot and badly roughed up last week. Every single one of the deaths in Iraq...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 03:33 PM | Fulltext link (54 comments)

August 04, 2005

Steven Vincent, RIP

I am at our big annual Quaker gathering in the Shenandoah Valley this week. I saw the accounts of the murder in Basra of freelance journo Steven Vincent. What a...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 08:09 AM | Fulltext link (20 comments)

July 30, 2005

Huffington on Judy Miller

Great piece by Arianna Huffington on Judy Miller, with links to all the background docs a person could possibly want....
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:18 AM | Fulltext link (1 comments)

September 18, 2004

3 Mid-Atlantic appearances this week

Some JWN readers have asked me to post info about my upcoming speaking engagements. Sorry about the short notice, but if you live in the Mid-Atlantic region of the US,...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 01:25 PM | Fulltext link (5 comments)

February 09, 2003

Blogging in Baghdad

Yesterday, I wrote about how amazing it is to get news from all round the world via the internet. (I won't mention that the i-net was first brought to the...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:33 PM | Fulltext link (0 comments)