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The ongoing disgrace of NBC News and Brian Williams

Another story from the NYT further exposes the corruption of NBC's reliance on Gen. Barry McCaffrey as an "independent military analyst."
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Sunday, November 30, 2008 11:26 AM

    Thanks for pointing out the 2003 Nation piece which Barstow failed to credit in 2008

    BTW, I'm not surprised, that Barstow would fail mention the article "TV's Conflicted Experts" by Daniel Benaim, Priyanka Motaparthy and Vishesh Kumar (two former interns and a free-lancer.) Reporters at the NYT often pretend to a scoop that builds on uncredited info from a previous article in a supposedly "lesser" source.

    For instance, in "Disclosures on Palin Raise Questions on Vetting Process," Elisabeth Bumiller, on 9/2/08, fails to acknowledge that Anchorage Daily News reporters Sean Cockerham and Wesley Loy published interviews with many of the same folks on August 29 in "Choice stuns state politicians."

    For details and links, see my blog post of September 1, "Sarah, Who?: http://bethwellington.blogspot.com/2008/09/sarah-who.html

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