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  •  NPR Ombudsman (none / 0)

    The rightwing bloggers might have gotten it from NPR, but it was one Italian newspaper online that provided the scoop.

    Further proof that NPR has been gelded by the Bush administration.

    -6.00/-7.18

    by TarheelDem on Fri May 06, 2005 at 05:30:25 PM PDT

    •  Yup (3.66 / 3)

      It was La Repubblica, the main newspaper in Rome, which first figured out about the redacted portions of the report being available. They posted several articles about it on their front page; Bloggers and other newspapers in Italy picked up on it from there.

      by silence on Fri May 06, 2005 at 06:01:13 PM PDT

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      •  to be accurate ... (none / 1)

        It was a reader from La Repubblica, as I recall a foreign med student in Bologna.

        Pax
        & greetings silence!

        Oui - Liberté - Egalité - Fraternité

        Berlusconi Disputes US Report on Calipari ¶ Stays Friendly ¶ UPDATED

        by Oui on Sat May 07, 2005 at 12:20:44 AM PDT

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      •  Who discovered full report (4.00 / 2)

        It seems there's a controversy on that.

        It seems that the winner is a Greek student from Bologna who unredacted the report by 1:25 AM, May 1st. He sent an email to Ansa and began calling up everybody he could, but no one paid any attention to him.

        At 8:00 AM Gianluca Neri, a journalist and blogger, caught on to the trick and, apparently thanks to his reputation and circuit savvy, managed to alert Ansa again. He also put the redacted version on line on his own blog after consulting a lawyer.

        La Repubblica and il Corriere immediately picked up the story and quickly put it on line. La Repubblica, however, provided a link to Neri's site, Macchianera, without citing him.

        There was a net-brawl afterwards in which many claimed to be the first to have discovered the trick. But as of this writing, it's the anonymous Greek student the documented winner.

        by rom wyo on Sat May 07, 2005 at 12:40:00 AM PDT

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        •  Interesting (none / 0)

          I saw it on La Repubblica, and didn't see any indication that it was anywhere else first, so I assumed that they were the ones who figured it out.

          by silence on Sat May 07, 2005 at 01:13:34 AM PDT

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        •  slight error (none / 1)

          It was il Corriere and not la Repubblica that first correctly cited and link Macchianera. It appears that la Repubblica turned a blind eye as if it were their scoop. The two national papers started putting the unredacted report on line around 1:30 PM, May 1st, 12 hours after the Greek student's email to Ansa.

          by rom wyo on Sat May 07, 2005 at 01:14:41 AM PDT

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