My Life as a New York Times Reporter in the Shadow of the War on Terror (2018)
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#2Still an important story. But the title should read (January 2018) or something to indicate that it is not breaking news.
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#3Still an important story. But the title should read (January 2018) or something to indicate that it is not breaking news.
The title intentionally implies it is still ongoing.
Re: My Life as a New York Times Reporter in the Shadow of the War on Terror (2018)
#4Still an important story. But the title should read (January 2018) or something to indicate that it is not breaking news.
The title intentionally implies it is still ongoing.
That may be the case but it's a HN feature/expectation that news that's not recent be disclosed as such in the title.
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#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
The title intentionally implies it is still ongoing.
If you don't think the government and the press are in bed, I have a bridge to sell you.
Before I buy that bridge, I'd want to you to be a lot more explicit about which parts of government, which parts of the media and on which issues. I haven't seen most of the media notably pro-Trump for example, to which I've no doubt you will say "ah yes, well Trump isn't the true government", or some-such.
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#7This aspect of the Yugoslav civil war is usually missing from the mainstream narratives.
During one interview, a source was droning on about a minor bureaucratic battle inside the CIA when he briefly referred to how then-President Bill Clinton had secretly given the green light to Iran to covertly ship arms to Bosnian Muslims during the Balkan wars. The man had already resumed talking about his bureaucratic turf war when I realized what he had just said and interrupted him, demanding that he go back to Iran. That led me to write a series of stories that prompted the House of Representatives to create a special select committee to investigate the covert Iran-Bosnia arms pipeline.
https://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/15/world/us-looks-away-as-ir...
https://www.nytimes.com/1996/04/19/opinion/l-iran-to-bosnia-...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1996/05/12/u...
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you don't think the government and the press are in bed, I have a bridge to sell you.
Before I buy that bridge, I'd want to you to be a lot more explicit about which parts of government, which parts of the media and on which issues. I haven't seen most of the media notably pro-Trump for example, to which I've no doubt you will say "ah yes, well Trump isn't the true government", or some-such.
Every single bit of government, with different parts of the press. No, Trump's not in bed with NPR... but it's hard to argue he's not closely involved with Fox personalities. Hannity showed up at Trump rallies and often chats to Trump via phone.
Every Congress member will have a variety of sympathetic press sources that match their politics. Every department has a press corps that depends pretty heavily on access to do their jobs. etc. etc.
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#9> Obama was determined to extend and even expand many of Bush’s national security policies, including a crackdown on whistleblowers and the press. Ignoring the possible consequences to American democracy, the Obama administration began aggressively conducting surveillance of the digital communications of journalists and potential sources, leading to more leak prosecutions than all previous administrations combined.
I am still thinking periodically about what happened there. Like the saying goes "I don't know what I expected..." but I certainly expected more from Obama. For some reason I thought privacy, freedom of speech and transparency would be priorities but they weren't. Granted, looking back I don't think he explicitly said those would be his top policies, it was just beliefs people, including me, imbued into his presidency. It was a very successful "Hope and Change" marketing campaign. He even fooled the Nobel Committee into getting a Nobel Peace Prize, so I guess I shouldn't feel too bad.
Other good things happened of course like ACA, a push to regulate pollution but overall it was a disappointment vis-a-vis the expectations.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you don't think the government and the press are in bed, I have a bridge to sell you.
Before I buy that bridge, I'd want to you to be a lot more explicit about which parts of government, which parts of the media and on which issues. I haven't seen most of the media notably pro-Trump for example, to which I've no doubt you will say "ah yes, well Trump isn't the true government", or some-such.
The longer-term sources/institutions have more bargaining power with the press.