{"id":179631,"date":"2017-12-10T20:06:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T01:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/12\/10\/as-atrios-would-say-time-for-a-blogger-ethics-panel\/"},"modified":"2017-12-10T20:06:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T01:06:00","slug":"as-atrios-would-say-time-for-a-blogger-ethics-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/12\/10\/as-atrios-would-say-time-for-a-blogger-ethics-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"As Atrios Would Say, “Time for a Blogger Ethics Panel”"},"content":{"rendered":"

It appears that LA Times<\/i> senior security reporter in Washington DC, made a habit of taking direction from the CIA on the content of his stories<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A prominent national security reporter for the Los Angeles Times<\/i> routinely submitted drafts and detailed summaries of his stories to CIA press handlers prior to publication, according to documents obtained by The Intercept<\/i>. <\/span>

<\/span>Email exchanges between CIA public affairs officers and Ken Dilanian, now an Associated Press intelligence reporter who previously covered the CIA for the Times<\/i>, show that Dilanian enjoyed a closely collaborative relationship with the agency, explicitly promising positive news coverage and sometimes sending the press office entire story drafts for review prior to publication. In at least one instance, the CIA\u2019s reaction appears to have led to significant changes in the story that was eventually published in the Times. <\/span>

<\/span>\u201cI\u2019m working on a story about congressional oversight of drone strikes that can present a good opportunity for you guys,\u201d Dilanian wrote in one email to a CIA press officer<\/a>, explaining that what he intended to report would be \u201creassuring to the public\u201d about CIA drone strikes. In another, after a series of back-and-forth emails about a pending story on CIA operations in Yemen, he sent a full draft of an unpublished report<\/a> along with the subject line, \u201cdoes this look better?\u201d In another, he directly asks the flack<\/a>: \u201cYou wouldn\u2019t put out disinformation on this, would you?\u201d<\/span>

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<\/span>Dilanian\u2019s emails were included in hundreds of pages of documents<\/a> that the CIA turned over in response to two FOIA requests seeking records on the agency\u2019s interactions with reporters. They include email exchanges with reporters for the Associated Press, Washington Post<\/i>, New York Times<\/i>, Wall Street Journal<\/i>, and other outlets. In addition to Dilanian\u2019s deferential relationship with the CIA\u2019s press handlers, the documents show that the agency regularly invites journalists to its McLean, Va., headquarters for briefings and other events. Reporters who have addressed the CIA include the Washington Post<\/i>\u2018s David Ignatius, the former ombudsmen for the New York Times<\/i>, NPR, and Washington Post<\/i>, and Fox News\u2019 Brett Baier, Juan Williams, and Catherine Herridge.<\/span>

<\/span>Dilanian left the Times<\/i> to join the AP last May, and the emails released by the CIA only cover a few months of his tenure at the Times<\/i>. They show that in June 2012, shortly after 26 members of congress wrote a letter<\/a> to President Obama saying they were \u201cdeeply concerned\u201d about the drone program, Dilanian approached the agency about story that he pitched as \u201ca good opportunity\u201d for the government. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It appears that the AP has conducted a review and called it all hunky-dory.<\/p>\n

Of course, Google and Facebook are doing their level best to ensure that this sort of corrupt incestuous “journalism” is never challenged, by filtering out alternate views as, “Fake News.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It appears that LA Times senior security reporter in Washington DC, made a habit of taking direction from the CIA on the content of his stories: A prominent national security reporter for the Los Angeles Times routinely submitted drafts and detailed summaries of his stories to CIA press handlers prior to publication, according to documents …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[368,490,387,481],"class_list":["post-179631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-hack-journalism","tag-hypocrisy","tag-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}