NY Times reporter who criticized Bush murdered

by **ARV** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 5:45 am

Nothing to see here folks. Just business as usual. From the AP: New York Times Journalist Killed in D.C. <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060109/ap_on_re_us/journalist_attacked_1">news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060...attacked_1</a> Veteran New York Times journalist David E. Rosenbaum, 63, died Sunday evening from injuries suffered in a street robbery while walking near his home two nights earlier, police said. He had undergone surgery Saturday at Howard University Hospital in an effort to relieve pressure on his brain, said his brother, Marcus Rosenbaum. Police spokesman Sgt. Joe Gentile said police found Rosenbaum after being called to the scene about 9:20 p.m. Friday and that the victim's wallet was missing. He said police are investigating a report that two men were seen leaving the area in a dark-colored vehicle. "He wanted some fresh air and decided to take a walk," Rosenbaum's brother, Marcus Rosenbaum, told The Washington Post. He said his brother was found by a neighbor who called 911 and waited with him until help arrived. Marcus Rosenbaum said a credit card company had called his brother's home Saturday morning and reported that someone had been trying to use one of his credit cards. A graduate of Dartmouth College and Columbia University, Rosenbaum grew up in Tampa, Fla., and worked for The St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times, a chain of suburban newspapers in London and Congressional Quarterly in Washington before joining the Times bureau in Washington in 1968. Except for a three-year stint as a special projects editor in New York in the early 1980s, Rosenbaum spent the remainder of his career with the Times' Washington bureau in a wide range of reporting and editing positions. He shared the 1990 George Polk Award for National Reporting with a fellow Times reporter for their coverage of federal budget battles. Rosenbaum's survivors include his wife, Virginia, and two grown children who also live in the Washington area.

by **renter** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 8:29 am

<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/1/9/11251/93382">www.dailykos.com/story/20...1251/93382</a> Even they are worried.

by **antiaristo** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 8:31 am

<blockquote>Quote:<hr>US troops seize award-winning Iraqi journalist Monday January 9, 2006 The Guardian American troops in Baghdad yesterday blasted their way into the home of an Iraqi journalist working for the Guardian and Channel 4, firing bullets into the bedroom where he was sleeping with his wife and children. Ali Fadhil, who two months ago won the Foreign Press Association young journalist of the year award, was hooded and taken for questioning. He was released hours later. Dr Fadhil is working with Guardian Films on an investigation for Channel 4's Dispatches programme into claims that tens of millions of dollars worth of Iraqi funds held by the Americans and British have been misused or misappropriated. The troops told Dr Fadhil that they were looking for an Iraqi insurgent and seized video tapes he had shot for the programme. These have not yet been returned. The director of the film, Callum Macrae, said yesterday: "The timing and nature of this raid is extremely disturbing. It is only a few days since we first approached the US authorities and told them Ali was doing this investigation, and asked them then to grant him an interview about our findings. "We need a convincing assurance from the American authorities that this terrifying experience was not harassment and a crude attempt to discourage Ali's investigation." Dr Fadhil was asleep with his wife, their three-year-old daughter, Sarah, and seven-month-old son, Adam, when the troops forced their way in. "They fired into the bedroom where we were sleeping, then three soldiers came in. They rolled me on to the floor and tied my hands. When I tried to ask them what they were looking for they just told me to shut up," he said.<hr></blockquote> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1682207,00.html">www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/S...07,00.html</a>

by **sunny** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 11:33 am

Very strange. Also strange is the fact that msm broadcast and cable news have not once mentioned the female U.S. journalist who was kidnapped after her translator was killed the other day. This would seem to be a very big story, given how they love missing women stories. (she's probably white, but I don't know) It seems to have gone off the radar online as well. That fellows' film will never be returned. Just how much, and in what direction did that poor unfortunate Times reporter criticize Bush?

by **Dreams End** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 11:35 am

While the death is definitely suspicious...was Rosenbaum really a critic? Here's a quote from his big piece showing Bush DIDN'T lie: <blockquote>Quote:<hr>" In fact, a review of the president's public statements found little that could lead to a conclusion that the president actually lied on either subject." <a href="http://www.felixsalmon.com/000173.php">www.felixsalmon.com/000173.php</a> <hr></blockquote> The article was members only, so this link is to a page critical of the story. Did he have other stories that make look more like an EOB (Enemy of Bush)?

by **Hugh Manatee Wins** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 11:44 am

The news cycle is supposed to be the Alito Supreme Court nomination now, no distractions.

by **OnoI812** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 12:56 pm

the boy king's SS is alive and well. Why doesn't the Guardian get it? Surely they can't be that naive...

by **PeterofLoneTree** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 3:12 pm

"A prominent Washington journalist, who began his career at the St. Petersburg Times, died Sunday (Jan. 8, 2006) after being beaten and robbed while taking an after-dinner walk in his quiet Washington neighborhood, police and friends say." <a href="http://tinyurl.com/exzkv">tinyurl.com/exzkv</a>

by **dbeach** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 5:07 pm

lotsa of mysterious deaths since 11/22/63 and the bush dynasty plays on...

by **sunny** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 5:18 pm

Peter, is there some significance to the reporter having worked at St. P. Times? Also, and I hate to keep harping on it, but it seems to me that whoever the female journalist is who was kidnapped, it must be such a shocking name, that msm cannot report it.

by **wordspeak** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 9:10 pm

Rosenbaum an EOB? It does seem so; at least the majority of his work comes off as anti-Bush (and what Times reporter is allowed to have a clear political agenda?). Here's a right-wing site bashing him: <a href="http://www.timeswatch.org/topicindex/R/rosenbaum_david/welcome.asp">www.timeswatch.org/topici...elcome.asp</a> But don't you think usually a journalist gets whacked because of something s/he is currently working on? except in the case of brutal revenge, such as with Gary Webb... Importantly, Rosenbaum was anti-Bush on *economic issues.* "David Rosenbaum thinks Reagan began a trend in budgetary dishonesty that Bush continues today."

by **Hugh Manatee Wins** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 9:22 pm

>The US dollar is going into stealth mode in March when Iran switches to the petro-Euro. >China is switching to other currencies. >The Fed is hiding the amount of currency in circulation starting in March. This reporter's economic reporting being stopped violently could be a message to those with the sensors to hear it: "Watch what you say." Very Wellstone-like to my mind. Perhaps a warning shot? Or just yet another timely coincidence. I remember wondering whether California Congressman Matsui had been given whatever killed him in January 2005 (bone cancer) since he was the Dems staunchest defender of Social Security just as the GOP campaign to loot SS was about to begin. <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/02/obit.matsui/">www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLIT...it.matsui/</a> >snip< Matsui died of complications from a rare disease Saturday night at Bethesda Naval Hospital outside Washington, D.C., his family said Sunday. He was 63. ... He also was the third-ranking Democrat on the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, where he was his party's point man on Social Security legislation. In a statement announcing Matsui's death, his office disclosed that the congressman had been diagnosed several months ago with myelodysplastic disorder, an often-fatal form of bone marrow cancer. The congressman's family said he entered the hospital on December 24 with pneumonia. >snip< Naw, the GOP is just damn lucky when the Dem point men die just before a big battle.<img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/eyes.gif ALT=":rolleyes"> Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=hughmanateewins>Hugh Manatee Wins</A> at: 1/9/06 6:43 pm

by **PeterofLoneTree** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 11:23 pm

"Peter, is there some significance to the reporter having worked at St. P. Times? "Also, and I hate to keep harping on it, but it seems to me that whoever the female journalist is who was kidnapped, it must be such a shocking name, that msm cannot report it." -- sunny The St. Pete Times has been doing a lot of ranting and raving over the Abramoff affair lately and any time I hear "Abramoff", "Atta", "Florida", "journalists", "casinos", etc. I get suspicious. (and) "A translator was killed in the incident and the reporter, now identified by the (Christian Science) Monitor as Jill Carroll, is still being held." <a href="http://tinyurl.com/87wjh">tinyurl.com/87wjh</a>

by * » Tue Jan 10, 2006 6:48 am

FWW <a href="http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2006/01/assassination-of-david-rosenbaum.html">xymphora's</a> Tuesday, January 10, 2006 The assassination of David R David Rosenbaum, a reporter and editor for the New York Times, died as a result of a head injury allegedly received when he was mugged in his upper-scale neighborhood in Washington. Problems with this: 1. Knocking someone out and then robbing them is an extremely odd method of mugging. Unconscious victims can't give you their valuables, the mugger wastes an assault on someone who may not even have anything worth taking, the assault makes a big spectacle out of the mugging and is likely to attract people looking to help, the assault means the police are much more motivated to solve the crime, and, if you are caught, the assault means you will be likely to receive a much longer sentence. You risk turning a relatively minor matter into a murder. Muggers generally approach you from the front, show a weapon or claim to have one, and demand that valuables be turned over. It's a tried-and-true approach with a history of success. 2. Authorities are looking for two suspicious men, seen leaving the area in a car. They have a partial plate on the car. Hit men use cars and travel in pairs. Muggers don't....[/i] embedded links at the original ******* Also, more on Jill Carroll via <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2006/01/09/jill_carroll_us_jour.html">boingboing</a> <img src="http://www.boingboing.net/images/jill_2.jpg" style="border:0;"/> Monday, January 9, 2006 Jill Carroll, US journo and pal of BB readers, kidnapped in Iraq Boing Boing reader Jeff s I don't know if this fits Boing Boing that neatly, but Jill Carroll was abducted in Iraq while working as a journalist for the Christian Science Monitor. She is my dear friend and I don't want her name to fall off the radar. My wife has posted a brief comment about her abduction. There will be more to come, as we work to bring her back alive. We met her while working in Jordan. I served as her editor at the national paper in the capital, Amman. She was desperate to become a foreign correspondent and, like so many before her, she was willing to take a risk and cover Iraq. We had her covering higher ed, but as soon as an opportunity to head for Baghdad opened, she took it. That was trip number one. I think this time was her third or fourth "visit." The good luck just couldn't hold out that long. We worried constantly about her, reading every news story of abduction and violence, steeling ourselves against seeing her name. Saturday came and our stomachs sank. We'd tried to put it behind us but now the Christian Scenice Monitor has confirmed. Damn it! When will this madness end. We want our Jill back.[/i] Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=1tal>1 tal</A> at: 1/10/06 3:54 am

by **renter** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 9:49 am

.... There is controversy over the matter as the ambulance arrived very late. Why did it arrive late? The initial responding unit reported it as being less of a priority. Why? They thought he was drunk. Why did they think he was drunk and not the victim of a mugging? Rosenbaum was still obviously wearing his watch and wedding ring. The muggers had time to root around in his pockets for a wallet they couldn't even be sure he had, but left the obvious valuables. David Rosenbaum was a high-level NYT journalist, not the kind of guy from whom you'd expect to get much real truth (he was no Gary Webb), but had recently (a month ago) retired from the newsroom of an organization that has a lot to hide. Was he hinting that he might reveal some of the secrets behind the odd relationship of the Times to the Bush Administration (holding stories of extreme national importance back for a year, and engaging in discussion of what news is 'fit to print'), or behind the campaign of lies told by the Times to help the Bush Administration trick the American people into the attack on Iraq?

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