More voices these days | It's Nieman Watchdog's third anniversary SHOWCASE The most striking changes since we started have been the advance of real reporting online, and, despite some great work, the continuing decline of the traditional news media.

A primer | Getting up to speed on detainees
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Longtime Supreme Court reporter Lyle Denniston writes a primer on U.S. detainee policy and the legal challenges expected in the coming months.

Huge fraud and theft losses | Terrorism probes cut deeply into other FBI work
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A six-month investigation by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reveals that thousands of white-collar criminals aren't being prosecuted because some 2400 agents, now assigned to counter-terrorism squads, haven't been replaced.

How it was done | Q&A with Paul Shukovsky SHOWCASE A NiemanWatchdog interview with one of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporters who wrote of the restructuring of the FBI after 9/11, resulting in a dramatic plunge in traditional FBI investigations.

Nieman Reports had this in 2004 | Before Walter Reed, there were Fort Stewart and Fort Knox and...
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In 2003 and 2004, UPI uncovered and reported abusive treatment by the Army of sick and wounded soldiers in Georgia and Kentucky and highly questionable handling of a widow in Colorado whose Green Beret husband killed himself in front of her. Seeking comment from the Army at the time, a UPI reporter and editor got stiff-armed instead.

A Nieman Reports preview | Independent reporting drew Army coverup, secrecy, delays
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Officials in the U.S. military, from the Pentagon on down, tried to thwart reporters for the L.A. Times who uncovered deaths and possible torture of detainees in Afghanistan.

Pullout in 4 to 9 months? | Odom on Iraq, Iran and what it means to be a democracy
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There are few true democracies in the world, William Odom says in a radio interview. ‘If the Iraqis and other Arab countries want to become liberal systems, they can do it. They’re not going to do it the way we’re headed there now.’

Memphis conference | Reform speakers take on the big media
SHOWCASE| January 13, 2007
Bernie Sanders says it’s time to turn up the heat on media conglomerates; FCC Commissioner Copps says there is ‘too little news, too much baloney passed off as news.’

Media reform convention | Propaganda as a juicy item on the ‘red meat’ panel in Memphis
SHOWCASE| January 13, 2007
In the morning, panelists shoot zingers at Bush, at Fox News, and at fake news. Then an afternoon panel focuses on 'youth media.'

Day 2 in Memphis | Iraq war, coverage of it, loom large at media reform convention SHOWCASE| January 13, 2007 The press gave up its one weapon, skepticism, and lost its way in coverage of the run-up to the war, says Helen Thomas. Improved coverage, she says, is in part responsible for the public’s turning against the war.

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