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Sunday, July 8, 2007 12:00 AM

The NYT's growing pro-war fan club

There is a reason why the country's most extremist war advocates have become the most enthusiastic fans of the Times' Iraq reporting.
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Sunday, July 8, 2007 07:06 AM

    The NY Times "public editor" (ombudsman) today

    http://nytimes.com/2007/07/08/opinion/08pubed.html

    The Public Editor
    Seeing Al Qaeda Around Every Corner
    By CLARK HOYT

    July 8, 2007

    "Why Bush and the military are emphasizing Al Qaeda to the virtual exclusion of other sources of violence in Iraq is an important story.

    So is the question of how well their version of events squares with the facts of a murky and rapidly changing situation on the ground.

    But these are stories you haven’t been reading in The Times in recent weeks as the newspaper has slipped into a routine of quoting the president and the military uncritically . . . "

    - - Clark Hoyt

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