Iraq war

Iraq Deadliest War for Media Since WWII

Lindsy Embree — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 09:54:29 -0400

Full article: United Press International
According to Reporters Without Borders, 230 members of the media were killed in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion by U.S. troops. The number is more than the number of reporters killed in the Vietnam War, making Iraq the deadliest war for the media since World War II.

Obama Announces $795 Million in Broadband Expansion Grants

Stevie Converse — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 08:12:22 -0400

Full article: Broadband Reports
Karl Bode
At the same time that the Obama Administration lauded broadband investment and announced roughly $795 million in grants and loans to help expand broadband services across the country, Rep. David Obey (D-Wis.) proposed an amendment to the Afghanistan and Iraq war supplemental that would trim broadband investment by roughly $602 million to offset war costs.

In Iraq, Colbert Does His Shtick for the Troops

Lindsy Embree — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:45:36 -0400

Full article: New York Times
Campbell Robertson
Steven Colbert is taping four episodes of <em>The Colbert Report</em>, the Comedy Central show featuring his egotistical, fake-macho, nationalist blowhard alter ego, in Baghdad. It's the first time in the history of the U.S.O. that a full-length non-news show has been filmed, edited and broadcast from a combat zone.

TV News Winds Down Operations on Iraq War

Holiday Shapiro — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:40:21 -0500

Full article: New York Times
Brian Stelter
Quietly, as the United States presidential election and its aftermath have dominated the news, America's three broadcast network news divisions have stopped sending full-time correspondents to Iraq.

FCC Launches Inquiry over Iraq War Coverage

Lindsy Embree — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:06:40 -0400

Full article: Wall Street Journal
Amy Schatz
Federal regulators have launched an inquiry into whether broadcast networks and military analysts violated federal sponsorship identification rules as a result of an effort by the Pentagon to increase favorable news coverage of the Iraq war.

Cameraman Freed by U.S. in Iraq; Another Held

Holiday Shapiro — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:41:42 -0400

Full article: Committee to Protect Journalists
A Baghdad TV cameraman was released by U.S. forces in Iraq, while the military continues to hold a freelance journalist working for Reuters.

NYT Gets Court Documents: 3 U.S. Army Personnel Executed 4 Iraqis

Holiday Shapiro — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:08:31 -0400

Full article: Editor & Publisher
Based on leaked court documents, the <em>New York Times</em> reported that in March or April 2007, three U.S. Army officers killed four Iraqi prisoners with pistol shots to the head as the men stood handcuffed and blindfolded, two of the soldiers said in sworn statements.

U.S. Military Frees Iraqi Cameraman

Holiday Shapiro — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:06:20 -0400

Full article: Committee to Protect Journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomed the release of an Associated Press cameraman who had been held by U.S. forces in Iraq for nearly three months without charge, but it expressed alarm over the U.S. military's continuing practice of detaining journalists without charge in Iraq.

Press Were Wrong on Iraq

Holiday Shapiro — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:45:33 -0400

Full article: The Independent
Stephen Glover
The lesson we should draw from the Iraq war is that some editors and journalists too eagerly lapped up government propaganda about Saddam and WMDs. If newspapers only said sorry, one might be more confident that they will not do the same again.

Kurdish Journalist Killed in Iraq

Holiday Shapiro — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:21:32 -0400

Full article: Associated Press
Iraqi police say gunmen have killed a Kurdish journalist near the northern city of Kirkuk. The Committee to Protect Journalists says at least 129 journalists and 50 media support workers have been killed in Iraq since the U.S. invasion in 2003, not including the most recent death.