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Extra! Magazine Editor Since 1990, Jim Naureckas has been the editor of Extra! , FAIR's bimonthly journal of media criticism. He is the co-author of The Way Things Aren't: Rush Limbaugh's Reign of Error , and co-editor of The FAIR Reader: An Extra! Review of Press and Politics in the '90s . He is also the co-manager of FAIR's website. He has worked as an investigative reporter for the newspaper In These Times , where he covered the Iran-Contra scandal, and was managing editor of the Washington Report on the Hemisphere , a newsletter on Latin America. Jim was born in Libertyville, Illinois, in 1964, and graduated from Stanford University in 1985 with a bachelor's degree in political science. Since 1997 he has been married to Janine Jackson, FAIR's program director. You can follow Jim on Twitter at @JNaureckas.
(20 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 1, 2013 Which Syrian Chemical Attack Account Is More Credible?
Let's compare a couple of accounts of the mass deaths apparently caused by chemical weapons in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta on August 21. One account comes from the U.S. government, introduced by Secretary of State John Kerry. The other was published by a Minnesota-based news site called Mint Press News