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The New York Times determined that several stories she wrote about Iraq were inaccurate, and she was forced to resign from the paper in 2005. [2] According to commentator Ken Silverstein , Miller's Iraq reporting "effectively ended her career as a respectable journalist". [ 5 ]
Jayson Thomas Blair (born March 23, 1976) is an American former journalist who worked for The New York Times.In May 2003, he resigned from the newspaper following the revelation of fabrication and plagiarism within his articles.
The New York Times was criticized for the work of reporter Walter Duranty, who served as its Moscow bureau chief from 1922 through 1936.Duranty wrote a series of stories in 1931 on the Soviet Union and won a Pulitzer Prize for his work at that time; however, he has been criticized for his denial of widespread famine, most particularly the Holodomor, the Ukraine famine in the 1930s.
On February 5, 2003, the Secretary of State of the United States Colin Powell gave a PowerPoint presentation [1] [2] to the United Nations Security Council.He explained the rationale for the Iraq War which would start on March 20, 2003 with the invasion of Iraq.
Previously, he was a military and diplomacy correspondent for The New York Times for 32 years. [1] During the first phase of the Iraq War, he was the only newspaper reporter embedded with the allied land command under General Tommy Franks, a position that "granted him unique access to cover the invasion strategy and its enactment". [2]
Although pro-war sentiments were very high after 9/11, public opinion stabilized soon after, and slightly in favor of the war. According to a Gallup poll conducted from August 2002 through early March 2003, the number of Americans who favored the war in Iraq fell to between 52 percent to 59 percent, while those who opposed it fluctuated between 35 percent and 43 percent.
Prior to the election, the Supreme Court in Iraq ruled that the existing electoral law/rule was unconstitutional, [1] and a new elections law made changes in the electoral system. [2] On 15 January 2010, the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) banned 499 candidates from the election due to alleged links with the Ba'ath Party. [3]
Caliphate is a narrative podcast published by The New York Times in 2018 which covers the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). It was hosted by reporter Rukmini Callimachi . The central figure of the podcast was Pakistani-Canadian Shehroze Chaudhry (using the name "Abu Huzaifa al-Kanadi"), who described in detail atrocities he claimed ...