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  •  Slide show (none / 0)

    requires registration at NYT
    •  bugmenot.com (none / 0)

      sorry, some what off-topic, but may be useful.

      www.bugmenot.com is your friend :) there is also a firefox extension that hooks in as well.

    •  Yahoo Slide show (none / 0)

      Is here
    •  Incredible Photos (none / 0)

      worth registering at the Times in any event.  Brave people armed with only cameras.
      •  yep (none / 0)

        great work from Anja Niedringhaus, Ashley Gilbertson, Stefan Zaklin, and Scott Nelson

        The Poorest of All Men is not the man without a cent but the man without a dream.

        by EMKennedyLucio on Tue Nov 09, 2004 at 10:03:00 AM PDT

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      •  Lopsided (none / 0)

        All we're seeing is the marines' side.
        •  that's not the fault (none / 0)

          of the journalists, you know people who cut your head off don't deserve balanced journalism....

          (I'm talking about the heads of journalists )

          Ours may in this event not be the angelical, pure good side, but the others are terorrists and idiots ( tell me about freedom fighters in the last 100 years who killed journalists...it's against their interest, so logically these are not freedom fighters ) .

          •  Fair & Balanced (none / 1)

            Granted that I'm not a big fan of those kidnapping westerners, but I think you're simplifying things somewhat.  There are many different groups that are opposed to the U.S. in Iraq, and only a very few of them are cutting off people's heads.

            Christopher Allbritton is one non-embedded reporter who visited Falujah about a month ago.  He was treated very well by the insurgents who presented themselves as anti-US and by extension anti-Allawi.  Considering that many in Iraq think that Allawi is a puppet (we did, after all, write his recent speech for him), one can understand if they aren't all that thrilled with their current government.  Unless these people were replaced by other insurgents, then these aren't the folks who are cutting off heads.

            Anyhow, this just brings home the point.  Other than embedded journalists, we have no information about who is there.  So we either have to take it on faith that our embedded reporters are reporting everything in a balanced manner ( which is virtually impossible considering their vantage point ) or we should be credulous about what we hear in the news.

            This administration has sought to vilify anyone (including Reagan-era conservatives) who stand in their way or criticize them in the slightest.  What makes you think that they won't try to paint everyone who is against the US with the same brush?

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