http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird

Seriously, the Church Commission documented the infiltration of the media with CIA operatives. The CIA promised not to do it anymore, but does anyone believe Bush would honor that agreement?

Thank you for this article. Good work. Comforting to know that some in the press are on the ball as regards this pack of pirates. Thanks again.

While reading this article, I wondered if Michael Gordon was a CIA plant or his integrity was otherwise compromised? What he is pushing is certainly not journalism, by any stretch of the imagination. One wonders who the editor was on this piece of garbage?

It has been documented that Miller allowed personal relationships and perhaps other causes to corrupt her reporting.

The Times did a lot of breast-beating over taking so long before giving Jason Blair the heave. Blair's lying, however, unlike Miller's (and frequent co-author Gordon's), didn't get anyone killed. Miller was a prime player in promotion of an illegal war and occupation which will certainly cost the lives of a million Iraqis before it's over.

One hopes Salon will communicate directly with the Times' Ombusdman about this disgraceful situation, as well as other media watchdogs. This can't wait until after the beginning of another war and additional cause for further nuclear proliferation.

WARNING!

The big problem is, are we gulliable enough to fall for this very dangerous and disastrous plan? I'm not denying that Iran is a treat, but we shouldn't be adding fuel to the fire and believing whatever this administration is telling us. This leader does not speak for all Iranians, but if they are threatened what do think they are going to do even if no good can come of it. Once again, they are getting the some of the Media to spead their agenda and make it seem more creditable. You can't believe everything that's in print, especially when they are a conduit for this administration instead of asking the hard questions of this administration.

Good article exposing Michael Gordon's parroting of the Bush-Cheney line on Iran. GET WITH IT NY TIMES! - Don't allow any journalist to get away with mere parroting of Bush-Cheney lies.

Welcome to Salon, Glenn. Same great journalism; exciting new place.

In the "interesting lists" department, today's Washington Post has an excellent article in the Outlook section headlined "Victory is Not an Option." It's authored by retired Lt. General William Odom, and lists the four main arguments repeatedly offered as to why the US "can't leave Iraq now." He then meticulously demolishes each one.

This should be required reading, and a copy sent to every member of Congress.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/09/AR2007020901917.html

Salon and Greenwald to be commended for nailing NYT for this kind of incompetent front page reporting---NYT is very slow to learn and have come to rely on after-the-stupidity apologies

Dean Grant

Having just finished this article about the NY Times once again pulling a "Judith Miller" and shilling for the Administration on Page One, I am ready to scream. No....actually, I am screaming! However, I do believe there is more to all of this than just shoddy journalism. Nowhere in the article is there mention of another agenda at the Times--not necessarily the reporter's agenda. He is, after all, just an employee and must bend to the will of the editorial board in order to get published! What is not said, and seems never to be said, is the obvious connection with Israel that underlies this "war mood" the Administration and the media are back into promoting! This is a neo-con tactic, as was the whole WMD farce in the Iraq War. And it is so tied in with our incestuous relationship with Israel. Why, oh why, do so few in the media speak of that? Is it the threat of being called an anti-Semite? I would hope that is not the case, because I most definitely am not, and ,in fact, have relatives living in Israel. But I think the media must have the courage to speak truth to power. I am waiting!!!!

Kate Madison

Depoe Bay, Oregon

I have started calling this "Pulling a Foxy."

These articles are always started or relayed by Fox News Channel. Can anyone doubt the origin? Our real President, in the bunker Cheney, our trigger-happy

never do yourself what you can get someone else to do for you, our conspiring behind the scenes five furlow know-it-all.

Good work Glenn for flushing them out of the Bushes.

Glenn, Because I enjoy your insights and writing so much, I followed you to Salon. However, another component of "Unclaimed Territory" which I have always found enlightening is the depth of the comments made by your loyal readers. I have also noted the sheer number of comments which your columns have engendered, yet, that seems to have changed rather dramatically with your move - last week literally hundreds of comments per column: this week less than ten. I hope this is a transitory issue and will be addressed soon.

I graduated from journalism school in 1980, and back then the principles Froomkin lists were accepted bedrock tenets of reporting on the government.

Twenty-six years ago nothing could have persuaded me that the New York Times - the Times! - was on the verge of abandoning every one of the those principles in favor of reprinting press releases.

My god, even the tiny community newspaper where I started working would rewrite press releases before publishing them.

It's not the Judy Millers and the Michael Gordons who are the exception any more - it's the courageous real reporters at Knight-Ridder (now McClatchy), the LAT, and of course bloggers like Bob Sommerby and Glenn.

Hate to sound like an old fart, but in my day stenographers like Miller and Gordon would not have been allowed within a mile of my hometown weekly, much less the NYT!

What the hell happened?

After choking on Gordon's article while reading the Times over the net on Sunday morning, I almost wished that I had a subscription that I could cancel with appropriate indignation.

It is impossible for rational people to put faith in anything the current administration tells us. Gordon puts the N.Y.Times in that same category.