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To: George Coyne who wrote (716480)	12/3/2005 2:23:36 AM
From: Kevin Rose	Respond to of 769670

Ok, fair enough. Site was down earlier, but their latest accusation seems weak. The NYT was pointing out how our military paying for articles in the supposed 'free press' of Iraq may not be a good idea (appears to defy the basic tenets of freedom of the press). Seems reasonable. If the military was paying papers stateside to print articles about how wonderful things were going in Iraq, we'd all (hopefully) be screaming bloody murder. Why should that be different for the Iraqis? We're trying to set an example for them, and with each of these mistakes, seem to be setting an increasingly poorer one. The second one is disqualified, as it is an editorial. Even the right wing media sentinels of liberal bias concede that editorial and opinion columns are not bias, but merely a point of view (and hence, not 'news'). Ack, their site went down again. Must be Clinton again...he probably had the entire staff murdered. :)