The idea: get the administration’s message out on the “surge” in Iraq and recent reports say Dick Cheney’s position on Iran (that the military option is looking more and more preferable). Is there a journalistic conflict of interest (one quite glaring (apparently not noted by a news outlet?)?
First read THIS and then THIS.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.