[IP] House Passes Resolution Assailing Media Report on Finances
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Date: July 1, 2006 11:22:30 AM PDT
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Subject: House Passes Resolution Assailing Media Report on Finances
From Daily Media News Feed
Friday, June 30, 2006
http://www.mediabistro.com/
House Passes Resolution Assailing Media Report on Finances (NYT)
After days of harsh criticism by the Bush administration aimed at the
New York
Times and other newspapers, the House of Representatives yesterday
condemned
the recent disclosure of a classified program to track financial
transactions
and asked the media to cooperate in keeping such efforts secret. San
Antonio
Express-News:
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/
MYSA062906.nytimes.EN.bbc4a6b.html
University cancels subscription to New York Times over bank records
disclosure
flap. WaPo:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/29/
AR2006062901904.html
The GOP-crafted resolution, approved 227 to 183, also condemned the
unidentified sources who leaked information of the program. The Nation:
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060717/sherman
"Even if you accept at face value the polls on media credibility, I
think
Americans are proud of having a free press and would find an espionage
prosecution to be a chilling governmental overreach," said Times
executive
editor Bill Keller. Marketwatch:
http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7B7CCF6A6B%
2DD638%2D46C7%2D8AFA%2D6228E44AC8C8%7D&siteid=mktw&dist=
"What could be more patriotic than a vigorous and independent
American media
doing its job? The New York Times is a highly patriotic newspaper,"
writes Jon
Friedman. Huffington
Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-sargent/right-wing-talk-show-
host_b_24080.html
A right-wing talk show host has just said that she would have "no
problem"
with it if Bill Keller were "sent to the gas chamber."
Weblog at: <http://weblog.warpspeed.com>
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