Journalism

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Aug 2004	Words the New York Times devoted last May to examining its own faulty reporting on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction : 3,082	Harper's Index Source: Harper's research
Aug 2004	Words the Times devoted last year to "correcting the record" after an investigation of reporter Jayson Blair : 7,102	Harper's Index Source: Harper's research
Apr 2004	Number of articles in major U.S. newspapers that have called any White House statement on Iraq a lie : 0	Harper's Index Source: Harper's research
Apr 2004	Number of the five tax-cut questions asked the president on Meet the Press last winter that concerned the cuts' inequity : 0	Harper's Index Source: Meet the Press transcript, 2/8/04

April 30, 2004	Six American soldiers, including a general, were facing court martial over the torture and sexual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison, which was famous for its torture chambers under Saddam Hussein. Photographs of the abuse were broadcast on U.S. television; one image depicted a hooded prisoner standing on a box with wires attached to his genitals.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: BBC
April 21, 2004	The editor of USA Today resigned in a scandal over a star reporter who made up his stories.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: USA Today
February 28, 2004	Six U.S. soldiers were killed by roadside bombs in Iraq; two employees of CNN were killed in an ambush.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: Los Angeles Times
December 4, 2003	Three Rwandan journalists were convicted by an international court in Tanzania for inciting the 1994 genocide on the radio and in print.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: New York Times

SEPTEMBER 2008

TYRANNY OF THE TEST
One Year as a Kaplan Coach in the Public Schools
By Jeremy Miller

THROUGH THE OPEN DOOR
Searching for Deadly Toys in China’s Pearl River Delta
By Donovan Hohn

WILLOWS VILLAGE
Story by Dagoberto Gilb

Also: Vivian Gornick and Francine Prose