Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!CALA-MUZIK!news.moat.net!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!69.28.186.75.MISMATCH!hwmnpeer01.lga!hwmedia!news.highwinds-media.com!hw-filter.lga!fe12.lga.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Reggie User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.anti-war,alt.iraqi,alt.fan.countries.iraq,alt.activism.peacefire,alt.peace,fj.soc.war-and-peace,humanityquest.peace Subject: Journalism under Siege in Baghdad! tvnl news Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 126 Message-ID: <2fgSf.16$%K4.5@fe12.lga> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 11:20:11 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.186.178.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@cv.net X-Trace: fe12.lga 1142526014 24.186.178.0 (Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:20:14 MST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:20:14 MST Organization: Optimum Online Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.soc.war-and-peace:224 HEADLINES and NEWS LINKS Courtesy of TvNewsLies.org http://tvnewslies.org/news ________________________________________________________________ Mar.16-2006 JOURNALISM & MEDIA : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#media **Orville Schell on Journalism under Siege in Baghdad - TV journalists still get up nightly on those picturesque Baghdad balconies never saying that they weren't the ones who went out that day to get the information they may be "reporting"; the most basic conditions under which reporters work in Iraq -- now far worse than when Fassihi wrote her email -- are seldom alluded to in news accounts, nor is there much sense that most of Iraq remains largely beyond our view. · FCC proposes $3.6 mil fine for CBS orgy scene · Mike Wallace Retiring from '60 Minutes' WAR : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#war · Terrorists or Resistance Fighters: America’s Dilemma in Iraq - So, what defines terrorism? Was this terrorism? Or was it resistance against an occupying force? POLITICS : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news#politics · Edwards in 2008 - My Prediction · Bush restates pre-emptive doctrine - Undaunted by the difficult war in Iraq, President George W. Bush reaffirmed his strike-first policy against terrorists and enemy nations on Thursday and said Iran may pose the biggest challenge for America. · Fukuyama Spurns Bush, Says War in Iraq `Didn't Make Much Sense' · Congressman writes White House: Did President knowingly sign law that didn't pass? - If true, this would put the President in willful violation of the U.S. Constitution. 9/11 News : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#911 · 911 EYEWITNESS SHOWS AT INTERNATIONAL PRESS CONFERENCE - The New York Times Tokyo Bureau Chief, Jim Brooks, said that he couldn't attend an official press function about 9/11 or he would be fired. · Federal Prosecutor Says 'No Point' in Continuing Moussaoui Trial - CONGRESS : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#congress · Republicans Block New Security Scrutiny - Republicans blocked a Democratic effort Wednesday to force House votes on expanding government scrutiny of foreign investments DOMESTIC : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#domestic · Senator complains of Republican censorship - Liz Krueger, a Democratic state senator from Manhattan, complained yesterday that Republicans get to censor her newsletters to constituents. · Fla. Corrections Chief Fires 9 Officials · Justice Ginsburg Reveals Details of Threat...from the "irrational fringe" of society, people apparently spurred by Republican criticism of the high court. ENVIRONMENT : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#environment · Add to Bush's follies the rape of his own country · Burst oil pipeline causes 'catastrophe' in Alaska NTERNATIONAL : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#international · Sanctions threat by EU on US tax breaks - Special sanctions will be imposed on US imports if Washington fails to lift the tax breaks, which the EU believes have given many American competitors an unfair advantage. · Containing China a big mistake: Alexander Downer · Pakistan supplied American missiles to Taliban MILITARY & VETERANS : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#military · 2,600 Minnesota National Guardsmen prepare for largest post- WW II deployment · U.S. Military Plans to Make Insect Cyborgs · Firm Failed to Protect U.S. Troops' Water - Halliburton Co. failed to protect the water supply it is paid to purify for U.S. soldiers throughout Iraq, in one instance missing contamination that could have caused 'mass sickness or death,' an internal company report concluded. EDITORIAL : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#editorial · When the Electronic Voting Buy Comes to MY County - Betrayed, outraged, that the worst, most corruption-prone Vote system is Foisted upon my own community · The Two Americas - Have you ever noticed that America is scizophrenic-of two minds, two ideals, two ideologies that contradict? HEALTH & SCIENCE : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#health · President Michelle Bachelet orders free hospital care for Chileans over 60 · State to study depleted uranium · House OKs birth control funding ban · Study: Most Get Mediocre Health Care · U.S. plans to reduce mad cow testing HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#rights · Best if Guantanamo closed: Blair · The Abu Ghraib files - 279 photographs and 19 videos from the Army's internal investigation record a harrowing three months of detainee abuse inside the notorious prison · Army's Entire Collection of Abu Ghraib Abuse Photos on Web - Salon.com OF INTEREST : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#interest · E. J'lem hospital held newborn triplet as 'deposit' · Franklin Graham Reaffirms Scorn for Islam __________________________________________________________ Note: Read Jesse's Blog every day! http://www.tvnewslies.org/blog/