BadGimp

US war reporter under fire

June 22 2003 By Christopher Reed - Los Angeles
theage.com.au

A reporter for The New York Times, Judith Miller, is the target of claims that she and her newspaper have been the vehicle for White House and Pentagon "propaganda" over Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction.

Miller, a Pulitzer Prize winner and co-author of a best-seller on biological warfare, is a hawk in the United States media coverage of Iraq's alleged weapons possession.

Miller's star status, frequent TV appearances and her newspaper's position as the daily US news agenda-setter, made her reports crucial to the war debate.

But her work has been attacked in The Washington Post, the New York Observer, The Nation magazine, the influential Washington newsletter CounterPunch, and independent weapons think tanks in Washington, such as the Arms Control Association.

Its executive director, Daryl Kimball, said: "The Times and Miller accepted shaky information from official sources that they should have known was questionable. In fact, it was propaganda."

Miller was unavailable for comment.

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To think that someone in the U.S. media would intentionally parrot questionable information from the administration to the American people. Information that was intended to suppport the administration's case for war and further said adgenda.

I'm shocked, Shocked I tell you!

BadGimp

posted by BadGimp @ 1:23 PM