Thursday, December 15, 2005
Wow, It Can Happen
The New York Times' Dexter Filkins covers today's Iraqi vote in a remarkably objective, even positive light.
He must have been shocked by the extraordinary developments of the day. It is impressive.
Let's see if they can continue to appreciate this spectacular progress in the post war political maturation of Iraq.
1 Comments:
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Callimachus, at
Fri Dec 16, 06:28:00 PM:
You probably know this, but that's the kind of story the NYT calls a lede-all, and the reporter who gets the byline on it is often the one who did the least legwork on the story. He's the one who sat back in Baghdad and pulled together the info the others were feeding him. If you go down to the very end of the story (which most people never do), you see the names of the reporters who were out gathering the info.
So if it represents a group effort, with at least three veteran NYT Iraq reporters (Filkins, Wong, Burns), it probably is that more impressive as a statement of the conditions over there on election day.
(The whole lede-all process is described in Alan Feuer's "Over There," which, by the way, has an unforgettable verbal portrait of Burns).
