Notes from journalists covering crisis, especially focused on journalistic questions, challenges, and lessons learned.
Accuracy in Media
By Cliff Kincaid
August 20, 2003
The Washington Post reports that L. Paul Bremer, the civil administrator in Iraq, has issued guidelines for Iraqi media, forbidding them from inciting violence, promoting hatred or circulating false information “calculated … Read more
By Daniel Williams
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, August 19, 2003; Page A14
BAGHDAD, Aug. 18 — U.S. authorities have appointed a media commissioner to govern broadcasters and the press, establish training programs for journalists and plan for the establishment … Read more
Reuters
Reuters cameraman Mazen Dana was shot dead on Sunday while filming near a U.S.-run prison on the outskirts of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.
Eyewitnesses said Dana, 43, was shot by soldiers on an American tank as he filmed … Read more
by Matthew Price
BBC correspondent in Baghdad
Believe it or not, when you drive round Baghdad these days you can listen to the BBC World Service in crystal clear FM quality.
It is a far cry from the days when … Read more
By CAROLINE WILBERT
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
When the full-scale war ended in Iraq, the story did not.… Read more
Neither did the spending. News executives continue to dump buckets of money into coverage that doesn’t generate big ratings — or dominate televisionBy Peter Carlson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, August 9, 2003; Page A01
The U.S. government has a message for young Arabs:
Hi. … Read more
By The Hearst Newspapers – 08/02/03… Read more
WASHINGTON — President Bush on Friday blamed television coverage of the buildup to the Iraq war for contributing to the nation’s sluggish economic recovery.The New Yorker
New York Times
By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr.
AGHDAD, Iraq, Aug. 4 — The Iraqi economy is flat on its back. But here on Karada Out, the bustling boulevard just across the Tigris River from Saddam Hussein’s palaces, business is … Read more
Editor & Publisher
By Joe Strupp
NEW YORK — As U.S. military casualties in Iraq continue to mount, newspapers find themselves thrust into a new area of coverage: the growing discontent among soldiers who have to remain in the war-torn … Read more