As you also know, one media house, The New York Times, recently exhibited honesty yet embarassment by its admission that it biased its news reporting in favor of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, which Americans now know was an unjustified if not criminal attack under international law. Fortunately, America's economic influence in the world and its enormous military power prevents the US from being both prosecuted and punished. However, if the US were to commit a second act of unwarranted aggression the number of people and countries around the world might find it necessary to hold the US in low esteem and/or exercise sanctions against us.

And because one Israeli-American NY Times reporter went to jail for withholding facts from investigators who were prosecuting security leaks intended to falsely mislead the American people into attacking Iraq in 2003, it is important that news reporters fully disclose any financial, ethnic or other biases they may have that are expressed by them to favor an act which they know to be wrong.

QUESTION 1/13: In the interest of fair reporting, should news reporters who cover Middle East affairs disclose their religious ethnicity during or before their news reports if their ethnicity is factored in the event(s) they are reporting on? For example, Should Judith Miller of the NY Times have regularly reminded her readers that she was Jewish when she authored reports that were strongly in favor of the US invading Iraq in 2003?