Muckraked

Archive for July, 2006

The News Sieve

- A profile in government incompetence and corruption: the Pentagon’s neverending development of the F-22A Raptor. (POGO Blog)
- How useless are those UN troops in South Lebanon? They haven’t been able to stop or discourage Hezbollah from amassing a huge arsenal of weapons since 1978. (LA Times)
- The best example of multimedia investigative reporting I’ve [...]

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Pardon the Interruption of Service…

As any unemployed blogger (yeah, I know that’s redundant) can tell you, every once in a while you have to take on real jobs to help pay the bills. Over the last two weeks, I’ve been busy with a few paid gigs (imagine!) which have taken me away from Muckraked. For this (and untold other [...]

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The News Sieve

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The News Sieve

- American soldiers rape an Iraqi woman, kill her and her family and then burn the bodies. Three months later in a nearby town, two soldiers from the same unit are kidnapped, brutally tortured with power drills and killed. You think there might be a connection?
- Here’s why most Americans can’t stand the media. (Sure, [...]

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