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Michael Kelly (March 17, 1957 – April 3, 2003) was an American editor and journalist. He was a columnist for the Washington Post. He died in 2003 while covering the invasion of Iraq. Kelly had written in support of the invasion of Iraq.[1]
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Career
Kelly reported on the Persian Gulf War in 1991 for The New Republic, which served as the basis for his book Martyrs' Day: Chronicles of a Small War (1993).
In 1996 he became the editor of The New Republic. Writer Stephen Glass had been a major contributor under Kelly's editorship; Glass was later shown to have falsified and fabricated numerous stories, which was admitted by The New Republic after an investigation by Kelly's successor, Charles Lane. Kelly had consistently supported Glass during his tenure, including sending scathing letters to those challenging the veracity of Glass's stories.[2].
After losing his job at The New Republic, Kelly was hired by David G. Bradley to run the National Journal. Bradley was so pleased with Kelly's work that he hired Kelly to run The Atlantic Monthly after Bradley purchased it in 1999.[3]
Views
Kelly was a supporter of U.S. military intervention during both the Clinton Administration and George W. Bush's administration.
He was a critic of the anti-Iraq war movement.[4] He coined the term "fusion paranoia" to refer to a political convergence of left-wing and right-wing activists around anti-war issues and civil liberties, which he claimed were motivated by a shared belief in conspiracism or anti-government views.[5][6]
In September 2002, Kelly criticized former vice president Al Gore for a speech that strongly condemned the Bush administration's efforts to drum up support for the coming invasion of Iraq. In a column in the Washington Post, Kelly said the speech was "wretched. It was vile. It was contemptible." He said Gore's speech "was one no decent politician could have delivered" and was "bereft of anything other than taunts and jibes and embarrassingly obvious lies."[7][8]
Death
On April 3, 2003, just a few weeks following the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Kelly was travelling in a HMMWV vehicle with a soldier from the 3rd Infantry Division when the vehicle was fired upon by Iraqi soldiers. The HMMWV carrying Kelly and Army Staff Sergeant Wilbert Davis veered off an embankment and into a canal below. Both men died in the accident. Kelly was the first reporter officially killed in action in Iraq[9].
References
- ^ American Journalist Michael Kelly Killed in Iraq Liza Porteus, Fox News, (April 4, 2003).
- ^ Shattered Glass. Buzz Bissinger, Vanity Fair, September 1998
- ^ Scott Sherman (2002). "What makes a serious magazine soar?". Columbia Journalism Review. http://cjrarchives.org/issues/2002/6/mag-sherman.asp. Retrieved 2007-08-18.
- ^ Michael Kelly, Anti-war effort perverts liberal values October 23, 2002 and Marching with Stalinists, January 22, 2003, both published in Jewish World Review.
- ^ Daniel Pipes, Fusion paranoia--A new twist in conspiracy theories, Jerusalem Post, January 14, 2004.
- ^ Michael Kelly, [http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1995/06/19/1995_06_19_060_TNY_CARDS_000370096 A Reporter at Large, “The Road to Paranoia,”The New Yorker, June 19, 1995, p. 60.
- ^ Timothy Noah (Sept. 24, 2002). "Gore Is Consistent on Iraq". Slate. http://www.slate.com/?id=2071500.
- ^ Michael Kelly (September 25, 2002). "Look Who's Playing Politics". The Washington Post. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/194588391.html?dids=194588391:194588391&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&fmac=&date=Sep+25%2C+2002&author=Michael+Kelly&desc=Look+Who%27s+Playing+Politics.
- ^ http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=28541
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