On the heels of my interview on FAIR’s CounterSpin, I did another interview with AntiWar Radio‘s Scott Horton on my CJR and Tehran Bureau stories (followed up here on the blog) about how media — particularly the New York Times‘s… Continue Reading
Last week I taped an episode of Fairness in Accuracy and Reporting’s CounterSpin Radio show discussing my two recent articles for CJR and Tehran Bureau about the media coverage of Iran’s role in Iraq. (Here’s a follow-up post on the… Continue Reading
When the Wikileaks document dump came out, many hawks and anti-Iran agitators grumbled that the document “proved” Iran’s nefarious influence in Iraq. I wrote, twice, about the lack of caution in these assessments, based mostly on anonymous conclusions and single-source… Continue Reading
I have a longish piece up at the Tehran Bureau website: a follow-up on my Columbia Journalism Review piece that asks some uncomfortable questions about New York Times reporter Michael Gordon’s past record and how his reporting on Iran’s nefarious… Continue Reading
My new piece just went up at the website of the Columbia Journalism Review. It covers some of the Iran hawks conclusions about the revelations, from the Wikileaks document dumps, about the alleged Iranian support for Iraqi militias. I urge that,… Continue Reading