American journalism sank to a new low in its coverage of the "demonstration elections" in Iraq, measured by the number of American journalists who challenged Washington's micro-managing of election coverage while on air: zero.

Just watching broadcast and cable television in the United States, you had no way of knowing that journalists were "limited to filming at only five polling stations" or that "it's American soldiers who will be transporting the ballot boxes around when they are full of votes" in Mosul, unless you happened to catch ITN's Julian Manyon on CNN International's program International Correspondents --

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http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/02/censoring-coverage-of-iraqi-elections.html

-- Yoshie

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