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John Hanrahan, currently on the editorial board of ExposeFacts, is a former executive director of The Fund for Investigative Journalism and reporter forâ?¯The Washington Post,â?¯The Washington Star, UPI and other news organizations. He also has extensive experience as a legal investigator. Hanrahan is the author ofâ?¯Government by Contractâ?¯and co-author ofâ?¯Lost Frontier: The Marketing of Alaska. He has written extensively for NiemanWatchdog.org, a project of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.
SHARE Monday, April 11, 2016 As in Libya, Avaaz Campaigns for Syria No-Fly Zone That Even Top Generals Oppose
Readers of the national edition of the June 18, 2015 New York Times were greeted with a dramatic full-page ad featuring a photo of an apparently injured baby fitted with a breathing device and being tended to by a partially visible adult beneath a big, bold-type headline: "PRESIDENT OBAMA, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?"
What stood out about this ad was not so much the neocon-like call to action but, rather, the ad's sponsors.