The AP's "Burning Iraqis" Story Will Not Go Quietly

Mary Katherine Ham on reporters:

Just because the story is bigger, the impact greater, and the game more dangerous in Iraq does not mean that the journalistic obligation to the truth changes. If anything, it becomes more important to assure far-away readers that reporting on far-away lands is accurate.

But the world’s most elite professional journalists don’t agree. They like to think notebooks and pens, and even truth, are made especially for them, delivered in little velvet-lined boxes alongside their j-school diplomas. Anyone who would dare question their sole proprietorship thereof certainly has ulterior motives.