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AP's Iran-Trained Hit Squads Story: Iraq News Nadir?
antiwar.com - 8/20/2008
AP's Iran-Trained Hit Squads Story: Iraq News Nadir?
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Excerpt: In covering the story of Iran's role in Iraq, far too many reporters have passed on blatant propaganda without the slightest effort to point out its inconsistency with documented facts, much less to try to uncover the truth.

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Newshoggers.com — ... While Gareth Porter illustrates the attendant fear for every journalist, that of losing access to those sources by writing reports that will upset them enough, when he quotes an interview with Pamela Hess, the AP's Pentagon reporter. ...

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