Flashback: 'The Unnewsworthy Holocaust: TV News and Terror in Cambodia
August 23rd, 2007 5:38 AM
In the wake of President George W. Bush's reminder Wednesday about how the “killing fields” of Cambodia followed the 1975 U.S. pullout from Vietnam and the region, a look back at a study, by William C. Adams and Michael Joblove, which documented how from 1975 to 1978 the three broadcast network evening newscasts, as well as the New York Times and Washington Post, virtually ignored the ongoing…
NYT Substitutes 'God' for 'Allah' in Airport Bomber E-mail
August 22nd, 2007 4:18 PM
It seems that the U.S. media has decided to take a pass on revelations that the Glasgow Airport Bomber Kafeel Ahmed left an e-mail claiming that he wanted to "die for Allah". In fact the New York Times avoided this fact altogether by using the word 'God' instead when referring to a Guardian UK article with the headline, Airport bomber's email to relative said he wanted to die for Allah. The…
Follow-up: Nearly Six Months Later, NYT's 'Manufacturing Recession' Ca
August 22nd, 2007 8:15 AM
Last night, it occurred to me, as I was preparing an e-mail to notify New York Times business columnist David Cay Johnston about updates to yesterday's original posts (NewsBusters;
