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[Tony Sutton]

COLDTYPE.NET - April 30

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WORDS AGAINST WAR / John Pilger
A crisis for journalism
On 8 April, newspapers around the world carried a despatch from a Reuters correspondent, ³embedded² with the US army, about the murder of a ten-year-old Iraqi boy. An American private had ³unloaded machine-gun fire and the boy . . . fell dead on a garbage-strewn stretch of wasteland². The tone of the report was highly sympathetic to the soldier, ³a softly spoken 21-year-old² who, ³although he has no regrets about opening fire, it is clear he would rather it was not a child he killed².
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GETTING A GRIP / Michael I. Niman
The Bush family and Fundamentalist Islam
What do you call a crowd of more than a million Shiite fundamentalists chanting anti-American slogans in Iraq? Here¹s where the spin reaches its pinnacle of twisted creativity. National Public Radio refers to this event as ³Iraqis celebrating their newfound freedoms.² And this in fact is an accurate description ­ but it¹s hardly the celebration of ³liberation² the Bush administration and their cronies in the media would like us to believe it is. True liberation, you see, is normally followed by some sort of ³thank you.²  This is more of a f**k you ­ now leave!
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