NY Post accuses NY Times of putting out
"News by Saddam"
New York Observer
Oh, baloney, says Times executive editor Howell Raines
(not using those exact words). "I understand there are other people
who approach these tasks with different kinds of agendas," he tells
Sridhar Pappu. "And we live in a time when there's a lot of
ideological journalism going on. I think it's interesting, but it has
nothing to do with what we do, which is make our journalism as straight
and as energetic and competitive as we can." PLUS: Pappu says
the Washington Post war correspondent Anthony Shadid has
"provided the sharpest, most elucidating work among the thousands of
reporters funneling millions of inches of copy."
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Los Angeles Times photographer fired for
altering war photo
Los Angeles Times
Brian Walski, a Times photographer since 1998, admits he used his
computer to combine elements of two photos to come up with the photograph
that appeared on Monday's front page. It showed a British soldier
directing Iraqi civilians to take cover from Iraqi fire on the
outskirts of Basra.
> The Hartford Courant also used the photo on
Monday's 1A (NY Post)
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Ex-NY Post Sunday editor slaps paper
with $2M lawsuit
Dow Jones Newswires
Maralyn Matlick, who spent 25 years at the New York Post
before her firing in February 2002, claims the Murdoch tabloid routinely
replaces Americans with Australian and British workers, and provides
little severance pay to women who are fired. She wants at least $2
million in damages.
> Earlier: Matlick was too feisty, butted
heads with bosses (Village Voice)
> Related: National picture
for women in newsrooms still murky (MH)
