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Notablequotables – best of 2006  

media bias basics  

No Bias Here “The House passed a $463.5 billion spending bill Wednesday that covers about one-sixth of the federal budget as Democrats cleared away the financial mess they inherited from Republicans.”–Associated Press, Jan. 31 

Obama’s Doubletalk
December 29, 2006  |  By Cliff Kincaid If our media would take the time to analyze what he says, rather than roll out a red carpet for him wherever he goes, Senator Barack Obama might be exposed as an expert in political doubletalk.   

TIME changes captions  HT:LGF  

note about CBS reporting 

Rumors and reporting in IRAQ 

The Press reporting rumors as facts has gotten so bad in Iraq, the Iraqi government had this documented conversation with the press (see below) You can read the entire document in the link above. MOI [Minister of Information] is monitoring coverage, and will insist on corrections to false reports.   Unnamed sources should not be used. Rumors are rampant, and media should be careful to check with official sources about information to avoid spreading false rumors.   

Before we start the weekly briefing, I have some points to highlight and to remind the brothers that work in the media, especially the Satellite television Channels. We meant by this note to stress the ministry of interior’s intention that we believe in free press and truthful press, in order not to confuse what the free press presents and the misleading media show, where the latter’s intention is to make the situation in Iraq worse than what it is.  

For example, we have some of the respected news outlets that deal with news fast and have a relation with many TV channels and the media in general, who distributed a story quoting a person called Jamil Hussein. Afterward, we searched our sources in our staff for anyone by this name– maybe he wore an MOI uniform and gave a different name to the reporter for money. And the second name used is Lt. Maythem.  

The second subject is rumors. The ministry received in a week more than 12 cases of claims, one stating 50 killed were there, 200 kidnapped here, 30 corpses found there etc. And when we dispatched our forces and investigators to the locations, we found nothing.    

January 5 - update Captain Jamil Hussein has been found, now let’s talk to him and see where he got the stories that no one else says happened…  this is getting very interesting. January 9 – update from Michelle Malkin and Flopping Ace’s Curt has a source (Bill Costlow) at the Civilian Police Assistance Training Team (CPATT, Americans working in Iraq to train Iraqis in basic police procedures) who says that it turns out that the so-called “Jamil Hussein” touted by AP as their source, the source whose full name AP now claims to be Jamil Gholaiem Hussein — is in fact actually named Jamil Ghdaab Gulaim. No “Hussein” in his name anywhere.  Read more here. 

The Main Stream Media continues to play fast and loose with the truth, expecting no one to keep track of this complicated story.  

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