Amy Goodman Questions Fmr. Chief Military Spokesman in Iraq

by Democracy Now (repost)

Fri, Apr 7, 2006 7:08AM

Reuters sponsored a debate this week in New York asking the question: "Iraq - is the media telling the real story?" The panel included journalists from a number of U.S. and international newspapers as well as Lt. Col. Steve Boylan, the former chief military spokesman in Iraq. At the event, Amy Goodman asked Boylan about the killing and detaining journalists by U.S. forces and the paying of Iraqi journalists to plant stories in the press.

"Iraq - is the media telling the real story?" - that was the question asked at a public debate sponsored by Reuters this week in New York. The panel included journalists from The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, the Wall Street Journal and Al -Hayat. Also on the panel was Lieutenant Colonel Steve Boylan, who recently returned to the United States after 16 months in Iraq as chief spokesperson for the military. Amy Goodman was at the event and I had the chance to question Boylan.

* Lt. Col. Steve Boylan responds to Amy Goodman

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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/07/144212

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