Tag Archives: Iraq

Enron

08-12-07 – 12:52:am

The gift that keeps on giving.
WikiP:
Arthur Andersen LLP, based in Chicago, was once one of the “Big Five” accounting firms among PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Ernst & Young and KPMG, providing auditing, tax, and consulting services to large corporations. In 2002, the firm voluntarily surrendered its licenses to practice as Certified Public Accountants in the [...]

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Lifecycle of a policy

08-07-25 – 10:55:pm

Kamber + Arango, “4,000 U.S. Combat Deaths, and Just a Handful of Images,” NYT (26 July ’08):
News organizations say that such restrictions are one factor in declining coverage of the war, along with the danger, the high cost to financially ailing media outlets and diminished interest among Americans in following the war. By a recent [...]

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What embedded journos agree to

08-07-08 – 12:31:am

Mutli-National [sic] Forces—Iraq (MNF-I)
Combined Press Information Center
International Zone, Baghdad, Iraq
As of: 20 NOV 07
NEWS MEDIA GROUND RULES (IAW Change 3, DoD Directive 5122.5)
Ground Rules Agreement
The following is a listing of ground rules that have been developed to protect members of the Armed Services from the release of information that could potentially threaten their security [...]

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“The fossil record doesn’t tell us much about social life.”

08-05-20 – 09:47:am

So says Paul Ekman, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at UCSF and an expert on facial expressions, according to Errol Morris in “The Most Curious Thing” in the NYT. As prosecutors become more media-savvy with all their perp-walks, PR campaigning leaks, and the like, it follows to reason that filmmakers would become the new prosecutors: forensics [...]

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