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I thought you might be interested in the article from the FAIR web site. The following article will be appended to your message: New York Times on Iraq Sanctions By Seth Ackerman In a 1998 article (4/23/98), New York Times United Nations correspondent Barbara Crossette critiqued the film Genocide by Sanctions, a documentary produced by a coalition of activist groups opposed to the U.N. sanctions on Iraq. Using footage of dying Iraqi children, the film sought to dramatize Iraq's desperate humanitarian conditions under the U.N. embargo; more than 1.25 million Iraqis have reportedly died from the massive escalation in the mortality rate since sanctions were imposed in 1990 (Reuters, 12/29/99). After noting that the coalition "produced a graphic videotape of dying children in Iraq, asserting that they were killed by sanctions," Crossette accused the video's producers of using Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's words out of context: "The video juxtaposes shots of [Albright], speaking in a different context, calling the sanctions policy 'worth the price,'" Crossette wrote. But the accusation was false. In fact, the documentary ran a straightforward clip from Albright's 1996 interview with 60 Minutes' Leslie Stahl (5/12/96): Stahl: We have heard that over half a million children have died. I mean, that's more than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it? Albright: I think this is a very hard choice. But the price--we think the price is worth it. Clearly, Albright was not speaking "in a different context," as Crossette claimed, but in the context of dead children. (See Extra! Update, 6/98.) To read the rest of the article, please click on the link below. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1025 This article was published on Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting's Website (http://www.fair.org).

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