Dude, Where's My Country_ - Michael Moore [98]
Reports on affected Iraqi civilians come from Paul Reynolds, “Analysis: Risk to civilians mounts,” BBC News, April 2, 2003; Lara Marlowe, “33 civilians die in Babylon bombing,” Irish Times, April 2, 2003; Zeina Karam, “Injured Iraqi boy making progress: ‘I feel good,’” Toronto Star, June 10, 2003; Corky Siemaszko, “Is he under the rubble?” New York Daily News, April 9, 2003; William Branigin, “A gruesome scene on Highway 9,” Washington Post, April 1, 2003; Christopher Marquis, “U.S. military chiefs express regret over civilian deaths,” New York Times, April 2, 2003.
Information on cluster bombs can be found in Jack Epstein’s San Francisco Chronicle article “U.S. under fire for use of cluster bombs in Iraq,” May 15, 2003; and also via Human Rights Watch, in particular, “U.S. use of clusters in Baghdad condemned,” April 16, 2003, and “Cluster bomblets litter Afghanistan,” November 16, 2001.
Steve Johnson wrote an excellent article on the “embedded journalists” in the Chicago Tribune, “Media: with embedded reporters, 24-hour access and live satellite feeds,” April 20, 2003. Also check out Jim Rutenberg’s “Cable’s war coverage suggests a new ‘Fox Effect’ on television journalism,” New York Times, April 16, 2003. To see the full report from Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting on the pro-war bias in evening newscasts, refer to the watch group’s Web site, www.fair.org. It was published in June 2003. Neil Cavuto’s comments on why he threw journalistic objectivity out the window can be found at www.foxnews.com in an article he wrote March 28, 2003, titled “American first, journalist second,” Fox News.com, March 28, 2003. Brian Williams sat through shock and awe and commented on how far we’d come since fire-bombing Dresden on NBC’s Nightly News on April 2, 2003. The Army’s $470 million deal with Microsoft was reported in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, “Microsoft wins biggest order ever,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 25, 2003. ABC’s World News Tonight erroneously reported the discovery of a weapons site on April 26, 2003. The September New York Times article that reheated the propaganda from the White House was reported by Michael Gordon and Judith Miller. The title of that article was, “U.S. says Hussein intensifies quest for A-bomb parts,” and it appeared in print September 8, 2002.
Source articles on the story of Jessica Lynch are: Susan Schmidt & Vernon Loeb, “She was fighting to the death,” Washington Post, April 3, 2003; Thom Shanker, “The Rescue of Private Lynch,” New York Times, April 3, 2003; Mark Bowden, “Sometimes heroism is a moving target,” New York Times, June 8, 2003; Mitch Potter, “The Real ‘Saving of Private Lynch,’” Toronto Star, May 4, 2003; John Kampfner, “Saving Private Lynch story ‘flawed,’” BBC News Correspondent, May 15, 2003; and Lisa de Moraes, “CBS News chief defends approach to Lynch,” Washington Post, July 22, 2003.
Powell’s disgust with the quality of intelligence he was to present to the United Nations was first reported by Bruce B. Auster, and others, in “Truth & Consequences,” published in U.S. News & World Report, June 9, 2003. Reports of Britain’s plagiarized “intelligence” were widespread, but in particular there is Sarah Lyall’s “Britain admits that much of its report on Iraq came from magazines,” New York Times, February 8, 2003.
Statements from Ari Fleischer and George W. Bush concerning the “yellow cake” whopper can be found at www.whitehouse.gov. George Tenet took responsibility first, as was reported by Barry Schweid, “After discredited report, finger-pointing abounds inside Bush administration,” Associated Press, July 11, 2003. The October memos from the CIA surfaced and were reported by, among others, Dana Milbank & Walter Pincus, “Bush aides disclose warnings from CIA,” Washington Post, July 23, 2003.
Rumsfeld’s charming incoherence was in full effect on NBC’s Meet the Press, July 13, 2003. Condoleezza Rice appeared on Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer, on CNN the same day, and she also showed up that busy Sunday on CBS’s Face the Nation.
Former Nixon aide