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| LA Times Sells News Before Military Did |
| 2005-12-01 |
| DC Examiner "One Word" for the LA Times - "Propped-Up Agenda" .pdf file, page 18 American articles in Iraqi newspapers The L.A. Times Wednesday reported that the U.S. government has been paying Iraqi newspapers to run articles written by American servicemen in order to more positively portray the American presence in the country. Many in the journalism industry have lamented the practice, saying it undermines journalistic integrity. How many would know it, if it came up and bit them? The L.A. Times might want to be careful who it lectures on journalistic integrity, however: In 1999, the paper made an agreement with the Staples Center — L.A.’s sports arena — to give the facility special coverage (disguised as a pure editorial) in exchange for advertising assistance and profit sharing. |
| Posted by:Bobby |
| #5 Hell, CNN paid Saddam and his cronies to report good news from Baghdad censoring the real information. So whats this crap about jounalistic integrity. You got to have some in order to loose it. |
| Posted by: Grinelet Slotle5800 2005-12-01 20:08 |
| #4 Ummmm, Ima be anon on thisn 1249. Little newisies all over this wonderful country sell their ass each week/day. |
| Posted by: in no way 2005-12-01 14:00 |
| #3 RC - Big difference between using a press release as part of the sourcing for a story and paying for the release to be run as a story. |
| Posted by: Flolutch Cluling1249 2005-12-01 13:41 |
| #2 Fact: Anytime you read, see, or hear a story quoting the "Center for Science in the Public Interest", that story came from a press release from that group. They provide the story, the quotes, the "experts" to interview, everything. There are other groups that receive similar treatment, notably the Democrat Party. That, to me, is a much more troubling practice than subsidizing the Iraqi press in exchange for a few (a dozen!) stories being printed. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-12-01 11:45 |
| #1 journalistic integrity????? PE_LEEEEEEEZE !!!!! |
| Posted by: ARMYGUY 2005-12-01 11:33 |