Times Sees Just One Side to Women-in-Combat Debate

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:47:00 +0000

Two days in a row Times coverage gave short shrift to critics who disagree with placing women in dangerous ground combat assignments in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Ken Shepherd

Failing to quote a single critic of the Pentagon's changing policies on women serving in combat, New York Times staffer Steven Lee Myers offered readers of the August 17 paper a unanimously positive view of how military women in Iraq and Afghanistan were "Living and Fighting Alongside Men, and Fitting In."

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Times Sees Just One Side to Women-in-Combat Debate