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In 2006, after SHOCK! ran my photograph of a US soldier and a wounded Iraqi girl on their cover without my permission, I launched a boycott against the magazine for stealing private property. They would not resolve the matter to my satisfaction. They even had the chutzpah to threaten to sue me after their theft was exposed. There was a large reader response, and now that magazine is out of business, although I still have unfinished business with the publisher.
Meanwhile, Bob Owens is hammering The New Republic for what many people believe was the worst kind of shoddy journalism. Bob Owens thinks advertisers who splash their wares on the pages of The New Republic risk alienating customers. Bob is bringing this risk to the attention of advertisers.
The huge media conglomerates are big and very powerful but their hugeness makes them very vulnerable. Regardless of the size of the parent publishing corporation, any person reporting on a war has a duty to do all they can to get the story right. Not fast and later right. Right.
