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Saturday, June 30, 2007 12:00 AM

Our rotted press corps, a division of "Camp Victory"

No matter how many times it results in false reporting, our press corps continues to base their "war reporting" on unverified military and government claims.
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Saturday, June 30, 2007 10:35 AM

    The WaPost followed up with an article about the BBC report

    FWIW. You used an article in the June 23 Washington Post as an example of a reporter using the Military's press release as gospel. In all fairness, yesterday (6/29) the Post ran an article (by the same reporter) about the BBC's report calling the Military's version of the incident into question.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/28/AR2007062800447.html

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