[IP] House Passes Resolution Assailing Media Report on Finances

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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[Note:  This item comes from reader Sally Richards.  DLH]

From: "Sally Richards" <sally@sallyrichards.com>
Date: July 1, 2006 11:22:30 AM PDT
To: dewayne@warpspeed.com
Subject: House Passes Resolution Assailing Media Report on Finances


From Daily Media News Feed
Friday, June 30, 2006
http://www.mediabistro.com/

House Passes Resolution Assailing Media Report on Finances (NYT)
After days of harsh criticism by the Bush administration aimed at the  
New York
Times and other newspapers, the House of Representatives yesterday  
condemned
the recent disclosure of a classified program to track financial  
transactions
and asked the media to cooperate in keeping such efforts secret. San  
Antonio
Express-News:
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/ 
MYSA062906.nytimes.EN.bbc4a6b.html

University cancels subscription to New York Times over bank records  
disclosure
flap. WaPo:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/29/ 
AR2006062901904.html

The GOP-crafted resolution, approved 227 to 183, also condemned the
unidentified sources who leaked information of the program. The Nation:
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060717/sherman

"Even if you accept at face value the polls on media credibility, I  
think
Americans are proud of having a free press and would find an espionage
prosecution to be a chilling governmental overreach," said Times  
executive
editor Bill Keller. Marketwatch:
http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7B7CCF6A6B% 
2DD638%2D46C7%2D8AFA%2D6228E44AC8C8%7D&siteid=mktw&dist=

"What could be more patriotic than a vigorous and independent  
American media
doing its job? The New York Times is a highly patriotic newspaper,"  
writes Jon
Friedman. Huffington
Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-sargent/right-wing-talk-show- 
host_b_24080.html

 A right-wing talk show host has just said that she would have "no  
problem"
with it if Bill Keller were "sent to the gas chamber."

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