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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 for The Washington Post, The Washington Star, UPI and other news organizations. He also has extensive experience as a legal investigator. Hanrahan is the author of Government by Contract and co-author of 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.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 3, 2015 Killer Drone News Blackout Continues As Mainstream Media Ignore 4 Whistleblowers
The polls show Killer drone attacks by the U.S. military and the CIA in the Greater Middle East and Africa have strong U.S. public support.
But how well informed can U.S. citizens be on this subject when the major news media time and again ignore or under-report drone-strike stories. NYTimes, WaPo and other MSM have ignored 4 former Air Force Drone War whistleblowers
SHARE Monday, November 23, 2015 Academic's Research Shows NY Times, Wash. Post Don't Do Follow-up Reporting to See if Civilians Killed in U.S. Drone Str
American U. academic, in examining articles by The NY Times and Washington Post in the immediate aftermath of U.S. drone strikes between 2009 and 2014, has concluded "Both papers have substantially underrepresented the number of civilians killed in drone strikes in Pakistan & Yemen, failed to correct the public record when evidence emerged that their reporting was wrong & ignored the importance of international law.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, June 25, 2015 Assessing the Candidates: Obama's Whistleblower War Leaves Dangerous Legacy for Future Presidents
It's an open question as to whether any future president could be more aggressive than Obama in going after whistleblowers. But based on the vengeful views of many of the large crop of Republican candidates and on Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton's tough statements on Edward Snowden's NSA spying disclosures, prospects are not good for a sharp departure from the whistleblower crackdown of the last six years.