War News in Final Days: How KSTP Decided to Roll Tape

Poynter Online - War News in Final Days: How KSTP Decided to Roll Tape
'Joey, I think we've been to the place they're talking about.'

That's what Dean Staley told Joe Caffrey after reading last Monday's New York Times account of explosives reportedly missing from a munitions facility in U.S.-occupied Iraq. The statement began a chain of events that resulted in politically charged video being broadcast nationally less than a week before Election Day.

Poynter Online wanted to understand and share with journalists the news judgment that resulted in these decisions, and asked me to pursue the story. "