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It's the Occupation, Stupid.
Everybody should go read Riverbend's May 29th entry, if you haven't done so already. She's absolutely right about Friedman, whose sweeping statements seem to be based on nothing but ignorance and assumption. In his final piece as NY Times public editor, Daniel Okrent points out the absurdity of allowing "opinion" columnists to repeatedly misrepresent facts when the rest of the paper requires fact-checking and accuracy (at least in theory). Riverbend, true to form, really rips his piece in half and brings it back to the bottom line: this is about occupation.
Iraq for Iraqis.
Posted by erinjudge at May 30, 2005 12:41 AM
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I actually thought Okrent's piece was pretty bad. His attack on Krugman was totally baseless, it sounds like he was just parroting something some neoliberal professor told him at a cocktail party. It's frankly typical that the watchdog of America's lyingest newspaper would call out one of the few people who tell the truth on its pages, at a time when NYT reporting has become practically synonymous with craven establishment whopperism.
But well said otherwise.
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at May 30, 2005 10:29 AM
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