new frontiers of democracy

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

from MS SLATE:
>The NY [TIMES] off-leads and the LA [TIMES] goes above-the-fold with
the U.S.
occupation's decision to shut down a popular Iraqi newspaper run
by a radical Shiite cleric. According to the LAT,  troops gave
the newspaper's editor a letter from L. Paul Bremer that said the
paper had violated a law issued last year banning publications
from printing material that incites violence. Both papers front
large photos of the ensuing demonstration that saw between
hundreds (LAT) and thousands (NYT) of demonstrators gather
peacefully in front of the paper's padlocked offices. ...
"I guess this is the Bush edition of democracy," said an Iraqi freelance
journalist. <

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