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Tuesday, July 29, 2003
Crittenden's souvenirs. The
Herald's gung-ho embedded reporter, Jules Crittenden, has not
only been cleared in the matter of those souvenirs he grabbed in
Iraq, but the US Customs Service has actually returned most of them
to him.
At least that's what
this
account in today's
Herald says.
Here's an
April 25 Globe story
by Geoff Edgers and Mark Jurkowitz on the initial inquiry. And here
is a commentary by the Poynter Institute's Bob
Steele that was posted to
Poynter.org on April 23.
Crittenden shouldn't have done it;
Steele went so far as to call what Crittenden and other reporters did
an example of "terrible ethical judgment." Plenty of other reporters
came back empty-handed.
But apparently Crittenden has been
proved right about this: it wasn't a criminal matter.
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Dan Kennedy is senior writer and media critic for the Boston Phoenix.
