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House Passes Resolution Assailing Media Report on Finances
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2006 08:10:24 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com> Date: July 1, 2006 9:39:16 PM EDT To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <dewayne-net () warpspeed com>Subject: [Dewayne-Net] House Passes Resolution Assailing Media Report on Finances
Reply-To: dewayne () warpspeed com [Note: This item comes from reader Sally Richards. DLH] From: "Sally Richards" <sally () sallyrichards com> Date: July 1, 2006 11:22:30 AM PDT To: dewayne () warpspeed com Subject: House Passes Resolution Assailing Media Report on Finances From Daily Media News Feed Friday, June 30, 2006 http://www.mediabistro.com/ House Passes Resolution Assailing Media Report on Finances (NYT)After days of harsh criticism by the Bush administration aimed at the New York Times and other newspapers, the House of Representatives yesterday condemned the recent disclosure of a classified program to track financial transactions and asked the media to cooperate in keeping such efforts secret. San Antonio
Express-News:http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/ MYSA062906.nytimes.EN.bbc4a6b.html
University cancels subscription to New York Times over bank records disclosure
flap. WaPo:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/29/ AR2006062901904.html
The GOP-crafted resolution, approved 227 to 183, also condemned the unidentified sources who leaked information of the program. The Nation: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060717/sherman"Even if you accept at face value the polls on media credibility, I think
Americans are proud of having a free press and would find an espionageprosecution to be a chilling governmental overreach," said Times executive
editor Bill Keller. Marketwatch:http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7B7CCF6A6B% 2DD638%2D46C7%2D8AFA%2D6228E44AC8C8%7D&siteid=mktw&dist=
"What could be more patriotic than a vigorous and independent American media doing its job? The New York Times is a highly patriotic newspaper," writes Jon
Friedman. HuffingtonPost: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-sargent/right-wing-talk-show- host_b_24080.html
A right-wing talk show host has just said that she would have "no problem"
with it if Bill Keller were "sent to the gas chamber." Weblog at: <http://weblog.warpspeed.com> ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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