CJR Daily | IraqSlogger.com
Voices of Iraq did what no US news org would do: identify at least one of the speakers at a weekend briefing in Baghdad. (VOI names Major General
William Caldwell.) "So, if the VOI report identifying Caldwell is correct, why did every other news organization apparently agree to grant anonymity to the general who's the official spokesman of the US-led Multi-National Force in Iraq?" writes
Paul McLeary. "If an American reporter blew in one of the anonymous briefers, you can bet that that reporter, and possibly his or her news organization, wouldn't get the call next time there was something juicy to leak." ||
Eason Jordan: "We deserve better from the western news media."
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Bunch: "The biggest outrage in journalism in the last four years" (PDN)
