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This is the third in a series of ten audio pieces I made for the Columbia Journalism Review's Oral History of Iraq War Reporting (www.cjr.org/iraq). All of these interviews were done primarily for the printed magazine, so beware some rough audio. Interviewees include Elizabeth Palmer of CBS, the New Yorker's Jon Lee Anderson, and freelance journalist Patrick Graham.
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This is the third in a series of ten audio pieces I made for the Columbia Journalism Review's Oral History of Iraq War Reporting (www.cjr.org/iraq). All of these interviews were done primarily for the printed magazine, so beware some rough audio. Interviewees include Elizabeth Palmer of CBS, the New Yorker's Jon Lee Anderson, and freelance journalist Patrick Graham.
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Reign of the CPA
N: In may of 2003, with Paul Bremer at its helm, the Coalition Provisional Authority set out to rebuild Iraq. This meant securing the country, rehabbing its shattered infrastructure, creating a government, and overseeing billions of dollars in civilian contracts. It also meant being the mouthpiece for Coalition forces. In this chapter, ?The Reign of the CPA,? journalists talk about their relationships with the authority. Here?s CBS?s Elizabeth Palmer
A: Elizabeth Palmer: Palmer 3
Oh it was like cognitive dissonance to sit in those press briefings, and it became funny, because inevitably there?d be a new reporter at the press briefing of the day who?d - we?d hear the spin and how everything was terrific and they?d repaired water plants and restored power and so on, and then the newcomer would put up the hand and go, ??Scuse me, but what I?m seeing out on the...
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