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June 20, 2003

Correcting The First Draft Of History On The Jessica Lynch Story One of Accuracy in Media’s longstanding complaints about the practice of journalism is the reluctance, and sometimes downright refusal, of editors to correct errors. AIM’s Chairman Emeritus Reed Irvine has written that the recent difficulties at the New York Times stem in large measure from the Times’ persistent refusal to acknowledge and correct serious errors.
June 19, 2003

Clueless At The CIA and FBI A new government report predicts that al Qaeda may try to launch a chemical, biological or nuclear attack on shopping malls or supermarkets. Meanwhile, the U.S. can’t find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and is draining a Maryland pond in a desperate attempt to find some evidence concerning the post-9/11 anthrax attacks.
June 11, 2003

AIM Report: Bush Must Rectify Pearl Harbor Smear For more than sixty years, much of the blame for the December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor tragedy, has rested on the shoulder boards of Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, the Commander-in-Chief of U.S. naval forces in the Pacific at the time of the attack. Kimmel was relieved of duty ten days after the attack.
June 5, 2003

AIM Report: Change Needed At The New York Times
(This AIM Report went to press as the Jayson Blair story was breaking, so it is not included in this report. However, we have since written about this - refer to the June 5 Report above.)
New York Times Company chairman Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. announced at his annual meeting on April 15 that it has been a successful financial year. But on the matter of the New York Times' editorial and news coverage, he was on the defensive, declaring that he would not be "intimidated" by criticism.
May 15, 2003

The Antidote to Hillary's Book: How to Destroy a Village Jason Fodeman's book, How to Destroy a Village: What the Clintons Taught a Seventeen Year Old, is finally out and available right here. In this column, Jason previews the powerful content of his book about the Clintons' legacy, and contrasts it with Hillary Clinton's soon to be released book.
June 5, 2003