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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.
The War in Afghanistan has truly begun. This will be a long, difficult fight that is set to eclipse anything we’ve seen in Iraq. As 2010 unfolds, my 6th year of war coverage will unfold with it. There is relatively little interest in Afghanistan by comparison to previous interest in Iraq, and so reader interest is low. Afghanistan is serious, very deadly business. Like Iraq, however, it gets pushed around as a political brawling pit while the people fighting the war are mostly forgotten. The arguments at home seem more likely to revolve around a few words from the President than the ground realities of combat here. I can bring the ground realities, but can sustain the coverage only by the graciousness of readers. Please keep that in mind. Please click…
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