The following article contains information about how AP buried explosive information about Anthony Shadid’s death:
By Alison Weir, CounterPunch, June 29, 2012
Anthony Shadid was an astounding journalist.
By 43 he was legendary for his courage and lyrical, powerful reporting. He had received the Pulitzer Prize twice for his moving reports from the middle of the Iraq war and had built, as the Washington Post noted, “one of the most storied careers in modern American journalism.”
He had reported from the chaos of war zones and had survived multiple crises. In Libya he had been kidnapped, beaten, and held for six days. In Palestine he had survived an Israeli bullet fired at him from 25 feet away. Continue reading