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Osama bin Laden

• July 26 -- Downplaying
Al Qaeda-Iraq Ties, Again
In a front-page story on the 9/11 Commission's final report, Times
reporters again try to minimize proven ties between Al Qaeda and Iraq.
• June 22 -- More
Moore, Less Clarke
Intelligence reporter Philip Shenon pens a quasi-review of Michael Moore's
"Fahrenheit 9-11" and goes out of his way to defend Moore. Also: What
became of media hero Richard Clarke?
• April 7 -- Bin
Laden Capture Would Be No Boost For Bush?
Adam Nagourney tries to tamp down any boost Bush gets from a hypothetical
capture of bin Laden: "And what if the capture of Mr. bin Laden brings with
it disclosures that the United States had missed opportunities to seize him
earlier, a finding that might lend some heft to Mr. Clarke's criticisms."
Does Nagourney know something we don't?

• April 24 --
No Gaffes On The
Left
While the Times is all over Sen. Rich Santorum’s controversial remarks on gays,
the paper never editorialized on the verbal gaffes of recent prominent
Democrats, including one senator who used a racial slur on TV and another who
likened Al Qaeda to a Middle Eastern charitable organization. E-mail
TimesWatch Director, Clay Waters, with TimesWatch feedback at
cwaters@mediaresearch.org
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