from MS SLATE: >The NY [TIMES] off-leads and the LA [TIMES] goes above-the-fold with the U.S. occupation's decision to shut down a popular Iraqi newspaper run by a radical Shiite cleric. According to the LAT, troops gave the newspaper's editor a letter from L. Paul Bremer that said the paper had violated a law issued last year banning publications from printing material that incites violence. Both papers front large photos of the ensuing demonstration that saw between hundreds (LAT) and thousands (NYT) of demonstrators gather peacefully in front of the paper's padlocked offices. ... "I guess this is the Bush edition of democracy," said an Iraqi freelance journalist. <
------------------------ Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
