Iraq

Jill Carroll Kidnapping Suspect Arrested in Iraq

Stevie Converse — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:53:32 -0700

Bill Would End Ban on Photos of Returning Military Dead

Stevie Converse — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 06:49:55 -0700

Reuters Seeks Evidence on Cameraman Held in Iraq

Stevie Converse — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:02:25 -0700

Iraq Story Buried by U.S. Networks

Stevie Converse — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:48:28 -0700

The three major U.S. networks spend on average 2 minutes per week covering the Iraq war, this according to the New York Times. The networks aren't telling the public about the deaths of Iraqi civilians since the invasion (anywhere from 600,000 to 1.2 million) or about the displaced Iraqis both internally and outside the country (more than 5 Million).

Former Bush Aide Testifies About C.I.A. Leak

Stevie Converse — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:38:45 -0700

Scott McClellan, President Bush’s former press secretary, told the House Judiciary Committee on Friday that he had been unfairly vilified by Bush supporters for his recent book criticizing former White House colleagues over the Iraq war and their involvement in leaking the identity of an intelligence officer.

Reporters Say Networks Put Wars on Back Burner

Stevie Converse — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:37:53 -0700

Getting a story on the evening news isn’t easy for any correspondent. And for reporters in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is especially hard, according to Lara Logan, the chief foreign correspondent for CBS News. So she has devised a solution when she is talking to the network.

Iraq Roars Back as a Campaign Issue

Stevie Converse — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:19:15 -0700

As has been the case for about a month, the media’s campaign narrative last week proceeded on two tracks. Track one was the fiercely passionate endgame to the Democrats’ long and hard-fought nomination battle. The other was the developing general election campaign between John McCain and Barack Obama. And in that story line, the Iraq war began to move back onto center stage.

Selling a War

Stevie Converse — Fri, 30 May 2008 08:22:22 -0700

The U.S. House of Representatives has angrily and appropriately lashed out at a Pentagon program that used retired senior military officers as propaganda surrogates to sell the Iraq war.

In Wake of McClellan Charges: When Bill Moyers Revealed How the Press Bought the War

Stevie Converse — Fri, 30 May 2008 07:48:58 -0700

Debate continues today over charges by former White House spokesman Scott McClellan, in a new book and on TV, that his former boss "hoodwinked" the media, and the public, into going along with the U.S. attack on Iraq in 2003.

GAO, Pentagon's IG Investigate Military TV Analysts

Stevie Converse — Fri, 30 May 2008 07:38:10 -0700

The Defense Department's inspector general (IG) as well as the General Accountability Office (GAO) began investigations last week into the Pentagon's private briefings of retired military analysts.

CNN's Yellin: Network Executives Killed Critical White House Stories

Stevie Converse — Thu, 29 May 2008 09:47:05 -0700

On Wednesday night, CNN's Jessica Yellin talked to Anderson Cooper about Scott McClellan's tell-all memoir and agreed with the former press secretary that White House reporters "dropped the ball" during the run-up to war.

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Amendment Targets Embedded-Analyst Program

Stevie Converse — Thu, 29 May 2008 06:02:32 -0700

It looks like the inspector general of the Defense Department and the Government Accountability Office may be joining the Federal Communications Commission in investigating the Bush administration's “embedded analyst” program.

Whatever Happened to Iraq?

Stevie Converse — Wed, 28 May 2008 08:36:54 -0700

Armando Acuna, public editor of the Sacramento Bee, turned a Sunday column into a public flogging for both his editors and the nation's news media. They had allowed the third-longest war in American history to slip off the radar screen, and he had the numbers to prove it.

News of McClellan's Blast at Bush 'Propaganda' Falls 4 Years After 'NYT' Mini-Culpa on War

Stevie Converse — Wed, 28 May 2008 08:31:03 -0700

In a supreme irony, word leaked out about bombshell revelations in the upcoming Scott McClellan memoir – including his unexpected charge that the “liberal media” fell for Bush “propaganda” on the Iraq -- almost exactly four years from the day from The New York Times offered its famous “mini-culpa” on its role in helping to pave the way for war.

The Wars We Choose to Ignore

Stevie Converse — Tue, 27 May 2008 10:44:29 -0700

Gen. John A. Logan was a Union officer, a fierce Republican partisan, an early advocate of the kind of volunteer army the United States now fights wars with. He is also one of the people credited with coming up with the holiday that we celebrate today.

House Aims at Pentagon Propaganda on Iraq War

Stevie Converse — Tue, 27 May 2008 07:57:24 -0700

The House of Representatives moved Thursday to crack down on a Pentagon program that Democrats say planted false and overly optimistic news stories about the Iraq war, using military analysts who appeared regularly on television.

House Votes to Ban Pentagon Propaganda: Networks Still Silent

Stevie Converse — Tue, 27 May 2008 05:06:25 -0700

You probably didn't hear about the House voting to ban Pentagon propaganda last Thursday -- since the television networks have once again conveniently failed to cover the story.

Military Public Relations Effort Faces Inquiry

Stevie Converse — Tue, 27 May 2008 04:41:27 -0700

The Pentagon's internal watchdog is investigating a government public relations effort that relied on retired military officers to defend the administration's Iraq war policies.

DeLauro Fights Use of Retired Generals to Justify Iraq War

Stevie Converse — Tue, 27 May 2008 04:25:02 -0700

Rep. Rosa DeLauro's long-standing frustration about government propaganda has been reactivated by the recent revelation that the Bush administration recruited retired generals and armed them with the administration's pro-war message to deliver on television news shows.

Two Inquiries Set on Pentagon Publicity Effort

Stevie Converse — Tue, 27 May 2008 04:10:44 -0700

The inspector general’s office at the Defense Department announced on Friday that it would investigate a Pentagon public affairs program that sought to transform retired military officers who work as television and radio analysts into “message force multipliers” who could be counted on to echo Bush administration talking points about Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantánamo and terrorism in general.