Even though the election and economic crisis have pushed the Iraq war off the front—or even the first dozen—pages of newspapers, the December 2008 issue of Vanity Fair features an article by Seth Mnookin in which he reports on life inside The New York Times‘ Baghdad bureau. The story is not yet online, but Read More
“It’s the oft-stated phrase that truth is the first casualty of war,” said Michael Ware, CNN’s Baghdad correspondent, on the telephone from Iraq. “In this war, as in every other conflict, everybody lies to you. Your government is lying to you. The Iraqi government is lying. The insurgents are lying. The militias are lying. The Read More
“We believe that insurgents, or whoever these people are, read Web sites,” New York Times foreign editor Susan Chira said.
It was Sept. 20, the day after The Times had confirmed that reporter Fakher Haider, one of its Iraqi stringers, had been abducted and killed in Basra. It was the second murder of a journalist Read More
“We believe that insurgents, or whoever these people are, read Web sites,” New York Times foreign editor Susan Chira said.
It was Sept. 20, the day after The Times had confirmed that reporter Fakher Haider, one of its Iraqi stringers, had been abducted and killed in Basra. It was the second murder of a Read More
