"""Daily Mirror"", namely the publication, in 2004, of several photographs purporting to show the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by British troops but which were subsequently found to have been faked. Morgan also recounts a commiseratory dinner marking the paper's decision which was hosted by the Prime Minister and his wife at which Morgan was a guest. Other entries include an account of the theft of text from fellow News International paper, ""The Sunday Times"", by Rebekah Wade and Morgan's later attempted theft of a leaked copy of the Hutton Report that was in the possession of Ms Wade. There are"
"of the war. It also gave financial support to the 15 February 2003 anti-war protest, paying for a large screen and providing thousands of placards. Morgan re-hired John Pilger, who had been sacked during Robert Maxwell's ownership of the Mirror titles. Despite such changes, Morgan was unable to halt the paper's decline in circulation, a decline shared by its direct tabloid rivals ""The Sun"" and the ""Daily Star"". Morgan was fired from the ""Mirror"" on 14 May 2004 after authorising the newspaper's publication of photographs allegedly showing Iraqi prisoners being abused by British Army soldiers from the Queen's Lancashire Regiment."
"false. After two weeks, the ""Mirror"" was forced to admit that it had found ""sufficient evidence to suggest that these pictures are fakes and that the Daily Mirror has been the subject of a calculated and malicious hoax."" Editor Piers Morgan was forced to resign when he refused to apologise. There has however been at least one case of true abuse; Corporal Donald Payne became Britain's first convicted war criminal after pleading guilty to abusing Iraqi detainees, which resulted in the death of one detainee Baha Mousa. Six other soldiers were cleared of any wrongdoing. The presiding judge, Mr Justice"
"of the War Department"". The ""Times"" supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq. On May 26, 2004, more than a year after the war started, the newspaper asserted that some of its articles had not been as rigorous as they should have been, and were insufficiently qualified, frequently overly dependent upon information from Iraqi exiles desiring regime change. Reporter Judith Miller retired after criticisms that her reporting of the lead-up to the Iraq War was factually inaccurate and overly favorable to the George W. Bush administration's position, for which ""The New York Times"" later apologized. One of Miller's prime sources was"
"the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal, reserve soldiers from the 327th Military Police battalion were charged under the Uniform Code of Military Justice with prisoner abuse, beginning with an Army Criminal Investigation Division investigation on January 14, 2004. In April 2004, U.S. television news-magazine ""60 Minutes"" reported on a story from the magazine ""The New Yorker"", which recounted torture and humiliation of Iraqi detainees by U.S. soldiers and contracted civilians. The story included photographs depicting the abuse of prisoners. The events created a substantial political scandal within the U.S. and other coalition countries. On April 20, 2004, insurgents"
"emerged that Morgan had bought £67,000 worth of Viglen shares, emptying his bank account and investing under his wife's name too. In 2002, the ""Mirror"" attempted to move mid-market, claiming to eschew the more trivial stories of show-business and gossip. The paper changed its masthead logo from red to black (and occasionally blue), in an attempt to dissociate itself from the term ""red top"", a term for a sensationalist mass-market tabloid. (On 6 April 2005, the red top came back.) Under then-editor Piers Morgan, the newspaper's editorial stance opposed the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and ran many front pages critical"
"organisations. ""The Guardian"" said that ""the ""New York Times"", ""Washington Post"" and other papers were accused by web publications and some bloggers of downplaying the extent to which the documents revealed US complicity in torture and provided evidence that politicians in Washington ""lied"" about the failures of the US military mission"". ""The Guardian"" had reported that ""fresh evidence that US soldiers handed over detainees to a notorious Iraqi torture squad has emerged in army logs published by WikiLeaks"", and Glenn Greenwald of Salon.com commented that ""media outlets around the world prominently highlighted this revelation, but not ""The New York Times"""","
"First reports of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse, as well as graphic pictures showing U.S. military personnel taunting and abusing Iraqi prisoners, came to public attention from a ""60 Minutes II"" news report (28 April) and a Seymour M. Hersh article in ""The New Yorker"" (posted online on 30 April.) Military correspondent Thomas Ricks claimed that these revelations dealt a blow to the moral justifications for the occupation in the eyes of many people, especially Iraqis, and was a turning point in the war. 2004 also marked the beginning of Military Transition Teams in Iraq, which were teams of U.S."
"""Herald Sun"", ""The Daily Telegraph"" and ""Northern Territory News"", before announcing his retirement in January 2016. He has had five books published. At the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003, McPhedran reported on the war from Baghdad, staying at the Meridien Palestine Hotel. McPhedran was expelled from the country by the Iraqi Government soon after ABC photojournalist Paul Moran was killed by a suicide car bomber in northeastern Iraq on 23 October 2003. McPhedran reported that Iraqi officials had accused him of not following regulations when he left his hotel to visit the Information Ministry building without a minder."
"The Italian newspaper ""Corriere della Sera"" reported that an Al Qaeda cell which had been captured at the Via Quaranta mosque in Milan had pornographic images on their computers, and that these images had been used to hide secret messages (although no other Italian paper ever covered the story). The ""USA Today"" articles were written by veteran foreign correspondent Jack Kelley, who in 2004 was fired after allegations emerged that he had fabricated stories and sources. In October 2001, ""The New York Times"" published an article claiming that al-Qaeda had used steganography to encode messages into images, and then transported"
"and ""Sunday Mirror"" moved to Trinity Mirror's facilities in Watford and Oldham. Under the editorship of Piers Morgan (from October 1995 to May 2004) the paper saw a number of controversies. Morgan was widely criticised and forced to apologise for the headline ""ACHTUNG! SURRENDER For you Fritz, ze Euro 96 Championship is over"" a day before England met Germany in a semi-final of the Euro 96 football championships. In 2000, Morgan was the subject of an investigation after Suzy Jagger wrote a story in ""The Daily Telegraph"" revealing that he had bought £20,000 worth of shares in the computer company"
"reputation and to the authority of its editors, in opposition to its editorial line, and made claims questioning the professional ethics of some of the staff. Alain Hertoghe Alain Hertoghe (born 1959) is a Belgian journalist, formerly an employee of the French Catholic newspaper ""La Croix"". He was fired in December 2003 after writing a book critical of the coverage of the U.S. invasion of Iraq by French newspapers ""Le Monde"", ""Le Figaro"", ""Libération"", ""Ouest-France"" and ""La Croix"". Entitled ""La Guerre à Outrances"" (in English: ""The All Out War: How the press misinformed us on Iraq""), Hertoghe claims that the"
"freed on March 30, 2006. Carroll was reporting in Iraq for the ""Christian Science Monitor"". She has also worked as a commentator for news networks such as MSNBC. She had been in Iraq since October 2003. Before covering the Middle East, Carroll was a reporting assistant in Washington, D.C., for the ""Wall Street Journal"" and worked for States News Service. According to an Associated Press report on August 9, 2006, U.S. Marines arrested four Iraqi men for participating in Carroll's kidnapping. Carroll was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She attended Huron High School in Ann Arbor and graduated from the"
"gives them and they become mascots for the military, these journalists. I wouldn't have journalists embedded if I had any power!... There are stories you can do that aren't done. I've said that many times."" On June 14, 2014, ""The New York Times"" published an opinion piece critical of embedded journalism during both the U.S. military occupation of Iraq and the war in Afghanistan. It was written by PVT Chelsea Manning, the former U.S. Army intelligence analyst known for leaking the largest set of classified documents in American history. At no point during her 2009–10 deployment in Iraq, Manning wrote,"
"stories received significant coverage in the mainstream press. In late April 2004, the U.S. television news-magazine ""60 Minutes II"", a franchise of CBS, broadcast a story on the abuse. The story included photographs depicting the abuse of prisoners. The news segment was delayed by two weeks at the request of the Department of Defense and Richard Myers, an air force general and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. After learning that ""The New Yorker"" magazine planned to publish an article and photographs on the topic in its next issue, CBS proceeded to broadcast its report on April 28. In"
"Globe"", the ""Boston Herald"", ""BBC World"", ""Newsday"", ""Democracy Now!"", ""Stars and Stripes"", ""The Real News"", ""Slate"", and Salon.com. The Pacifica Radio network suspended regular programming for three days in order to air a live broadcast of the proceedings from March 14 through March 16, 2008, co-anchored by journalist Aaron Glantz, who has reported extensively on the Iraq War and its effects on veterans. Haymarket Books published a book of testimony from the event, ""Winter Soldier Iraq and Afghanistan: Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupations"", co-authored by Glantz. Aside from alternative media, coverage outside the United States was much greater than within"
"inaccurate, and she was forced to resign from the paper in 2005. According to commentator Ken Silverstein, Miller's Iraq reporting ""effectively ended her career as a respectable journalist"". Miller acknowledged in ""The Wall Street Journal"" on April 4, 2015, that some of her ""Times"" coverage was inaccurate, although she relied on sources she had used previously. She further stated that policymakers and intelligence analysts had relied on the same sources, and that at the time there was broad consensus that Iraq had WMD. In a book published in 2015, Miller attempted to convince people that reporting is difficult. Miller was"
"of citizens, especially the people of ethnic minorities."" It also argues that the freedom of press has been neglected, citing examples such as the firing of Peter Arnett and limited access to ""al Jazeera"" television broadcasts. The report emphasized U.S. military actions abroad, including the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, conducted without the approval of the United Nations. The report concludes that the United States should ""reflect on its erroneous position and behavior on human rights, and stop its unpopular interference with other countries' internal affairs under the pretext of promoting human rights"". The 2004 report stated: In 2004"
"""has gone on to become a journalistic cliché"". The ""New York Post"" used it (as ""Surrender Monkeys"") as the headline for its December 7, 2006, front page, referring to the Iraq Study Group, and its recommendation that American soldiers be withdrawn from Iraq by January 2008. Articles in the ""Daily Mail"" (2005 and 2009) used it to describe France's ""attitude problem"" and the ""muted"" European reaction to the death of Osama bin Laden; ""The Daily Telegraph"" (November 2010) cited it in relation to Anglo-French military cooperation. In August 2013, ""The Independent"" suggested an evolution away from the term, in a"
"and were sacked before the inquiry concluded. Further enquiry by the Department of Trade and Industry in 2004 cleared Morgan of any charges. On 7 December 2005, Bhoyrul and Hipwell were convicted of conspiracy to breach the Financial Services Act. During the trial it emerged that Morgan had bought £67,000 worth of Viglen shares, emptying his bank account and investing under his (first) wife's name, too. The ""Mirror"" attempted to move mid-market in 2002, eschewing the more trivial stories of show-business and gossip, but sales declined. In the wake of the Abu Ghraib torture scandal, Morgan was fired as Editor"
"Alain Hertoghe Alain Hertoghe (born 1959) is a Belgian journalist, formerly an employee of the French Catholic newspaper ""La Croix"". He was fired in December 2003 after writing a book critical of the coverage of the U.S. invasion of Iraq by French newspapers ""Le Monde"", ""Le Figaro"", ""Libération"", ""Ouest-France"" and ""La Croix"". Entitled ""La Guerre à Outrances"" (in English: ""The All Out War: How the press misinformed us on Iraq""), Hertoghe claims that the big five French newspapers were ideological, biased and anti-American in their coverage of the war. He selectively presents articles contradicting themselves, or characteristic of the following"
"of protest"", NBC initially defended him, saying he had given the interview as a professional courtesy and that his remarks were ""analytical in nature"". A day later, though, NBC, MSNBC and ""National Geographic"" all severed their relationships with Arnett. In response to Arnett's statement on Iraqi TV, NBC stated: Arnett responded: Later that day, Arnett was hired by the British tabloid, ""The Daily Mirror"", which had opposed the war. A couple of days later he was also assigned to Greek television channel NET television, and Belgian VTM. He retired as a field reporter in 2007. He now lives in Los"
"insiders dismissed any suggestion that a visit by News UK owner Rupert Murdoch to the ""Times"" newsroom on the day of the verdict had anything to do with the editorial decision. The November 2002 edition of the men's lifestyle magazine ""FHM"" in Australia was swiftly withdrawn from sale soon after its publication, and a public apology made in the Australian and British editions, because it contained jokes mocking the disaster. As a result, Emap Australia, who owned ""FHM"" at the time, pledged to make a donation to the families of the victims. Although the original apology was not printed in"
"saying that Condoleezza Rice working for George W. Bush was ""similar in my mind to a Jewish person working for Hitler in the 1930s."" In May 2004, Turner and activist Sadiki Kambon held a press conference to reveal photos purportedly showing US soldiers raping Iraqi women. The pictures were eventually identified as fakes, but only after four of the alleged rape shots appeared in a ""Boston Globe"" photo of the two men. Turner was subjected to wide criticism from conservative media and was censured by six members of the City Council. Turner was unrepentant, noting that he had urged the"
"had published faked pictures, originating from American and Hungarian pornographic Web sites, of British and American soldiers supposedly sexually abusing Iraqis. Steyn argues that media only wanted to show images to Westerners ""that will shame and demoralize them."" In a July 2005 column for ""National Review"", Steyn criticized Andrew Jaspan, then the editor of ""The Age"", an Australian newspaper. Jaspan was offended by Douglas Wood, an Australian kidnapped and held hostage in Iraq, who after his rescue referred to his captors as ""arseholes."" Jaspan claimed that ""the issue is really largely, speaking as I understand it, he was treated well"
"that the photographs were faked, and has stated that the abuse shown in the photographs is similar to the sort of abuse which was happening in the British Army in Iraq at the time. In partnership with Matthew Freud, he gained ownership in May 2005, of ""Press Gazette"", a media trade publication together with its ""cash cow"", the British Press Awards, in a deal worth £1 million. This ownership was cited as one of the reasons many major newspapers boycotted the 2006 awards. ""Press Gazette"" entered administrative receivership toward the end of 2006, before being sold to a trade buyer."
"and photographers were sent in case Hislop did anything untoward or embarrassing while in their presence. Neither the reporters nor the photographers succeeded. Hislop also revealed that Morgan had attempted to quell the feud in an article in ""The Mail on Sunday"", saying, ""The war is over. I'm officially calling an end to hostilities, at least from my end. I'm sure it won't stop him carrying on his 'Piers Moron' stuff"" (""Private Eye"", the fortnightly satirical magazine which Hislop edits, regularly calls Morgan 'Piers Moron') Hislop, who was working on a World War I documentary at the time, responded by"
"Kambon during which they distributed photographs they alleged showed American soldiers raping Iraqi woman. In its early editions on May 12, photographs from the event clearly showed some of the pictures presented, the Globe later apologized for the error. Other news agencies quickly responded to the story by linking the photographs to American and Hungarian pornography sites. One week prior to the press conference, WorldNetDaily had published a story detailing the origin of these pictures and how they were being used as propaganda. However, several other sources have stated that Iraqi females, including teenage girls, were sexually assaulted while being"
"network with fueling anti-Coalition hostilities. Al Jazeera spokesman Jihad Ballout said: ""It's regrettable and we believe it's not justifiable. This latest decision runs contrary to all the promises made by Iraqi authorities concerning freedom of expression and freedom of the press,"" and Al Jazeera vowed to continue its reporting from inside Iraq. News photographs showed United States and Iraqi military personnel working together to close the office. Initially closed by a one-month ban, the shutdown was extended indefinitely in September 2004, and the offices were sealed, drawing condemnation from international journalists. In April 2013, Iraq banned Al Jazeera along with"
"""The New Yorker"" magazine (posted online on April 30 and published days later in the May 10 issue) reported the story. Janis Karpinski, the commander of Abu Ghraib, demoted for her lack of oversight regarding the abuse, estimated later that 90% of detainees in the prison were innocent. The United States Department of Defense removed seventeen soldiers and officers from duty, and eleven soldiers were charged with dereliction of duty, maltreatment, aggravated assault and battery. Between May 2004 and March 2006, eleven soldiers were convicted in courts-martial, sentenced to military prison, and dishonorably discharged from service. Two soldiers, Specialist Charles"
"and filed a report that caused a U.S. Senate committee to vote for a suspension of military aid to Indonesia. From 1991-93, he covered the war in Yugoslavia for ABC News and wrote about it in the Spectator. He returned to Iraq in 2003 to cover the American invasion for ABC News and wrote about the war in ""Harper's"" magazine with photographs by a friend, Don McCullin. He and McCullin covered Iraq again for ""Harper's"" in the autumn of 2016 to report on the war against the Islamic State and in 2017 recorded in words and photographs for ""Granta"" the"
"Israel, and Serbia to check his work and sift through stacks of hotel records to determine if Kelley was where he claimed to be when filing stories. On 26 January 2004, Natasa Kandic of the Humanitarian Law Center in Belgrade disputed his account of using her as a source for a July 1999 front-page story on a typed Yugoslav Army order to ""cleanse"" a village in Kosovo. The same month, Kelley resigned but denied the charges. The ""USA Today"" publisher, Craig Moon, issued a public apology on the front page of the newspaper. The scandal led to the resignations of"
"States soldiers provoke an international outrage. Furthering the charges, excerpts from the Abu Ghraib Taguba report were published on May 3, 2004. The report documented: the sodomizing of a prisoner with a chemical light, pouring phosphoric liquid on detainees, rape of a female prisoner, forced masturbation, ""ghost detainees"" moved around to avoid the Red Cross, and many other abuses. The release of the photographs and reports had led to renewed calls for investigations into the abuses reported in other US military prisons, such as Camp X-Ray and Camp Delta. On May 14, 2004, reporters for the Guardian documented a coercive"