{"id":1268,"date":"2006-11-24T18:51:18","date_gmt":"2006-11-24T18:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-11-24T21:21:29","modified_gmt":"2006-11-24T21:21:29","slug":"reporting_the_n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1268","title":{"rendered":"Reporting The News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Patterico lays out<\/a> – in his inimitable prosecutorial style – the case that a LA Times story on Iraq was not only wrong, but maliciously and lazily so.<\/p>\n

He says: <\/p>\n

So I can’t tell you whether it’s true that the L.A. Times is repeating propaganda from a stringer with ties to insurgents.<\/p>\n

\nBut I can tell you this: I don’t have the resources of the L.A. Times. Yet in my spare time from my full-time job, using widely available resources on the Web and contacts built up through blogging, I probably got a more accurate picture of what happened in Ramadi on November 13 than the paid reporter for the L.A. Times did.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and he’s understaing his case. I’ve watched him work on this over the last few days, and I’ll tell you that – in his spare time, apart from his day job and time spent with his family – he’s done original reporting and laid out the truth better than the LA Times with it’s vast resources, layers of editors, and commitment to journalistic excellence.I’m stuck trying to figure out why until I pull down a borrowed copy of Richard Avedon’s portrait book “The Sixties” – which I’d love to blog about – and saw this:<\/p>\n

Gloria Emerson
\nNew York Times Correspondent
\nSaigon
\nApril 1, 1971<\/p>\n

Vietnam is just a confirmation of everything we feared might happen in life. And it has happened. You know, a lot of people in Vietnam – and I might be one of them – could be mourners as a profession. Morticians and mourners. It draws people who are seeking confirmation of tragedies…<\/p>\n

Once I got so desperate – the Americans had started bombing Hanoi – I ran to the National Press Center where they gave the briefings…a forty year old woman running through the streets in the middle of the night…and I wrote on the wall in Magic Marker, Father, forgive. they know not what they do. And I don’t even believe in God. Who is Father? Father, forgive, they know not what they do. But there were no other words in the whole English language.<\/p>\n

If they found out it was me they would have sent me home. New York Times correspondents must not go running around at two o’clock in the morning writing, Father, forgive, they know not what they do. But afterward I thought how there’s no way…no one, no one to whom you can say we’re sorry.<\/p>\n

[ellipses in the original]<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s something here to discuss…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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