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  • (Houston) Chron slams Rumsfeld, ignores ethical lapse

    12/12/2004 11:06:44 PM PST · by weegee · 1 replies · 333+ views
    Lone Star Times ^ | December 11, 2004 | Matt_Bramanti
    In its latest editorial, the Chronicle's editorial board complains about unarmored vehicles in Iraq: Military supply officers say the problem isn't money, but bottlenecks in the supply of vehicle armor and other equipment. Factories can only produce so much, but the Army's inability to equip 150,000 troops in the field with all the best and latest equipment should be cause for worry. What? The constraints of time, space and the laws of physics are all Rumsfeld's fault? The editors also pass up an opportunity to salvage some semblance of ethics in journalism: Reports that the soldiers' questions were prompted by...
  • SHARON REED'S BODY OF ART (Pathetic Sensationalism)

    11/15/2004 12:50:40 PM PST · by CT CONSERVATIVE · 70 replies · 21,728+ views
    What do you get when you combine a beautiful Sunday morning, a Downtown Cleveland venue, a world-famous photographer and over a thousand Clevelanders ... completely naked? How about art? It all happened recently, and 19 Action News anchor Sharon Reed was there. But Sharon didn't just report the story, she became part of it -- posing nude with over a thousand others for a groundbreaking and controversial photo that all of Cleveland will be talking about