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Fast Forward Israeli government briefly confiscates Associated Press equipment under new press law
he Biden Administration expressed concern at the confiscation of the AP equipment
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Fast Forward The Associated Press Thinks Jews In Mourning ‘Sit And Shiver’
In an article about the aftermath of the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida, the Associated Press wrote that Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel had described visiting the families of the victims. “I’ve been to their homes where they sit and shiver,” the AP quoted him as saying. But what Israel actually said was “I’ve…
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Breaking News The Associated Press Defends Itself Against Nazi Allegations
(Editor’s note: This is an updated post to The Forward’s original publication of a JTA story about the Associated Press and its use of photos supplied by Nazi propagandists.) The Associated Press has issued a full-throated defense against a historian’s accusations that its photographers worked closely with Adolf Hitler’s regime during World War II. The…
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Opinion Run Charlie Cartoons? Times Frets as Others Act
The New York Times made an awkward attempt this afternoon to examine the presumably anxious debate in the American news media over whether or not to reproduce the new Charlie Hebdo cover with its image of Muhammad. The trouble is, there isn’t much of a debate. The Times is one of just a handful of…
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Opinion AP vs. Matti Friedman — Fight Gets Ugly
Journalists and Palestinian protesters take cover from Israeli fire at a demonstration / Getty Images (JTA) — Whatever the circumstances surrounding Matti Friedman’s departure from The Associated Press in 2011, it’s safe to say he’s not returning anytime soon. The former reporter and editor with the international wire service’s Jerusalem bureau made waves in August with…
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Opinion Should Justice Ginsburg Retire to Save Her Legacy?
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and the man who could replace them / Getty Images With midterm elections 11 months away and control of the Senate a toss-up, pressure is mounting on the two oldest liberal justices, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 80, and Stephen Breyer, 75, to retire and let President Obama name their successors. You…
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Opinion Was Valerie Jarrett Obama’s Secret Iran Link?
That bombshell Associated Press report on Sunday about the months of secret U.S.-Iranian talks that led up to the Geneva agreement has added whole new layers of mystery and intrigue, not to mention venom, to the news of the nuclear agreement itself. What’s fascinating is how much isn’t being said. The story was first broken…
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