[Ray66]

This is a well done post and write up of the blatant bias of stringers in Iraq being used by the AP and Reuters. Is this an oversight or are both allowing the "stringer" post and report propaganda of the enemy? That's the bigger question.

[holden]

"AP International Editor Deborah Seward makes the point that the journalists best able to move freely in Baghdad are the AP's Iraqi staffers - text, photo and television. She says many were victims, along with their families, of Saddam's regime. Reporting is dangerous for them, but they are determined to capture this historic period for their country. Still, they find conditions so dangerous that they have all relocated their families outside Iraq.

Aug. 21, 2005 Tampa Tribune story

HF