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  • Air War: How Saddam Manipulates the U. S. Media

    10/17/2002 10:44:28 AM PDT · by GeneD · 10 replies · 355+ views
    The New Republic ^ | 10/16/02 (for issue of 10/28/02) | Franklin Foer
    If the bombs begin falling on Baghdad, a broad swath of the TV-viewing world will quickly become intimate with Jane Arraf, CNN's Iraq correspondent for the past four years. Arraf files her reports from the third-floor landing of a blocky white building a few hundred meters from the Tigris River, with the ancient city's minaret-filled panorama behind her. CNN shares the building with the BBC, Associated Press, Reuters, and the handful of other news organizations that have a permanent presence in Baghdad. But there's an uncomfortable fact about this building to which these tenants don't often call attention: It's the...