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Here’s some unexpected praise that made my morning, in a Jerusalem Post article on an Israeli proposal to give some bloggers journalist credentials. The Government Press Office (GPO) is considering granting leading bloggers press credentials equal to those of journalists and reporters. Ron Dermer, a senior adviser to the ...
Here’s your chance to get your name in Michael J. Totten’s new book.
In another excellent column, Michael J. Totten interviews the vice president of Lebanon’s Kataeb (Phalangist) Party: Where the Middle East Fights Its Wars. I visited Lebanon after wrapping up my last trip to Iraq, and was pleasantly surprised all over again by how much nicer Beirut is than Baghdad ...
Michael Totten continues his must-read series on The Future of Iraq, Part IV. I don’t think many Iraqis today are afraid of the state. But everybody was terrified of Saddam Hussein’s totalitarian government. Speaking their minds could get them imprisoned or killed. It could get an entire family dragged ...
Robert Spencer is mixing it up with Michael J. Totten and Mary Madigan at Totten’s pad. Totten asks Spencer a good question about his announced participation in the “Pro-Koln” conference — a question I’ve brought up as well: If the nutjobs in Cologne did nothing but invite Pamela, why ...
Michael J. Totten, Iraq, Journalism, Baghdad, Military, Robert Spencer, Andrew Bostom
Forty years ago, he was covering the moon landing of Apollo 11. Tonight, veteran CBS journalist Walter Cronkite is dead at the age of 92, after a protracted illness. [Video]
Michael J. Totten answers an attack from anti-Islam zealot Andrew Bostom: Arguing for Uncertainty. Andrew Bostom – pal of Robert Spencer and the deranged Pamela Geller – bizarrely accuses me of being an uninformed dogmatist for publishing a “roseate view” of Iraq, even though my article in question was ...
Michael J. Totten, Iraq, Journalism, Baghdad, Military, Robert Spencer, Andrew Bostom
Michael J. Totten calls out Robert Spencer for a particularly uninformed comment about Iraq: We Are Not at War with Nouri al-Maliki. Robert Spencer, founder and lead writer for Jihad Watch, has a bit of trouble telling the difference between friend and foe in Iraq and still thinks, despite ...
Michael J. Totten, Iraq, Journalism, Baghdad, Military, Robert Spencer
Part three of Michael Totten’s must-read series on The Future of Iraq: The United States has basically won the war in Iraq. No insurgent or terrorist group can declare victory or claim Americans are evacuating Iraq’s cities because they were beaten. America’s most modest foreign policy objectives there have ...
Michael Totten talks with the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg about The Real Quagmire in the Middle East. MJT: You have talked to Hamas people. Should the Israelis or Americans talk to them? Goldberg: I don’t know what they’d get out of it. MJT: What did you get out of it ...
Michael J. Totten, Middle East, Journalism, Israel, Palestinians, Hamas
Michael J. Totten has posted the second part of his look at The Future of Iraq. A must-read, for the kind of reporting the mainstream media no longer does. The first time I visited Baghdad, I only stayed for a week. The place stressed me out. The surge was ...
Michael Totten has posted the first of a four-part series exploring the big issue on everyone’s minds: The Future of Iraq. Iraq has never been successfully governed by anyone but a strongman. You might even say Iraq has never been successfully governed at all. Who today sincerely believes the ...
“At the White House, as we all like to say, we love MSNBC.” Can you blame them?
Media, Journalism, Media Bias, MSNBC, Kareem Dale, Barack Obama
The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President Bush has been sentenced to three years in jail, and people who think it’s cool to assault the President of the United States are seething and whining. Chief defense attorney Dhia al-Saadi then demanded that the charge be dismissed, saying ...
You may have seen reports on a study from Indiana University concluding that the mainstream media is biased—in favor of the Republican Party. (Yes, really.) But according to Copious Dissent, there are severe problems in the study’s methodology: Analysis of the Indiana University Study on Republican Media Bias. Overall, ...
Media, Journalism, Media Bias, Indiana University, Fairness Doctrine
Here I am via webcam at PJTV with Joe Hicks, discussing the recent rash of Chapter 11 filings by mainstream newspaper owners: Media 1.0 Deathwatch - Video.
The Associated Press helpfully informs us that the Iraqi journalist who threw shoes at President Bush was protesting the war. BAGHDAD – The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at former President George W. Bush failed to apologize as his trial began Thursday, and instead appealed defiantly to the ...
It’s time for the Dishonest Reporting ‘Awards’ 2008. And there are a lot of contenders for the prize.
Q: How do you know when you’ve really made it in the Arab world? A: Father offers daughter to shoe-thrower. CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian man said on Wednesday he was offering his 20-year-old daughter in marriage to Iraqi journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi, who threw his shoes at U.S. President ...
Iraq, President Bush, Journalism, Arab World, Women's Rights, Misogyny
Arab journalists are stepping forward to say, “I’m Muntadhar al-Zeidi!” — photographed by Bilal Hussein. (Hat tip: Snapped Shot.)
Now at the website of VG, Norway’s largest newspaper: a cute little Flash game in which readers can throw a shoe at Bush, just like an Iraqi journalist: Kast en sko på Bush her! (Hat tip: Bruce Bawer.)
The Iraqi TV reporter who threw his shoes at George W. Bush yesterday is rather predictably being hailed as a hero by the Arab world. Newspapers across the Arab world printed front-page photos of Bush ducking the flying shoes, and satellite TV stations repeatedly aired the incident, which was ...
A local Iraqi TV reporter enhanced his credibility today by screaming insults and throwing shoes at President Bush. BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Iraqi reporter called visiting U.S. President George W. Bush a “dog” in Arabic on Sunday and threw his shoes at him during a news conference in Baghdad. ...
Orson Scott Card hits the mark: Would the Last Honest Reporter Please Turn On the Lights?
Orson Scott Card, Journalism, Mainstream Media, Media Bias, opinion
Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein has been freed, under a new amnesty deal with the Iraqi government. On Monday afternoon, American military officials announced that they would release Bilal Hussein, a photographer for the Associated Press who has been in custody for two years on allegations of aiding insurgents. ...
LGF, Iraq, Bilal Hussein, Associated Press, richard butler, Journalism