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With a huge increase in media sources over the past decade, the news scene in Pakistan is lively and controversial. In order to counter what it considers to be outright falsities in the Pakistani press, the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad now routinely issues Corrections for the Record. But in such a diverse and fast-moving environment, can this effort have any effect? Larry Schwartz, the Embassy's senior spokesman, says yes.
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Comments [3]
When I heard the snippet of this story at the opening of the show, I thought it was going to be about Fox News. I wish the Obama White House could be as vigilant in letting the folks at Fox know they will "hear from us when they really tell a whopper."
i read Haaretz web edition because the US media acts like Likud's poodle as do its politicians.
Yes, "false claims" and "direct falseness" and political bias in the press is very annoying, isn't' it NPR...."duh".
I will be thinking about that the next time you cover a Tea Party event.
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