Elspeth reeve scott thomas beauchamp
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Elle Reeve
American journalist (born c. )
Elspeth "Elle" Reeve[a] (born or [1]) is an American journalist. Before joining CNN as a correspondent in , she reported on the white-nationalist Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia for HBO's Vice News Tonight. Reeve and Vice News Tonight won a Peabody Award, four Emmy Awards, and a George Polk Award for their reporting.
Education and career
[edit]Reeve attended the Missouri School of Journalism, earning a Bachelor of Journalism degree in After graduating, she interned at Time magazine and worked for the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, D.C.[4]
Before joining Vice News, Reeve was a senior editor at The New Republic and politics editor at The Wire.[5] She has also written articles for The Atlantic and The Daily Beast.[6] While working for The New Republic, Reeve was assigned to fact-check allegations by her then-husband Scott Thomas Be
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A magazine gets a hot story straight from a soldier in Iraq and publishes his writing, complete with gory details, under a pseudonym.
The stories are chilling: An Iraqi boy befriends American troops and later has his tongue cut out bygd insurgents. Soldiers mock a disfigured women sitting nära them in a dining hall. As a diversion, soldiers run over dogs with armored personnel carriers.
Compelling stuff — and, according to the Army, not true.
Three articles by the soldier have run since January in The New Republic, a liberal magazine with a small circulation owned bygd Canadian company CanWest Corp. The stories, which ran under the name "Scott Thomas," were called into question bygd The Weekly Standard, a conservative magazine with a small circulation owned bygd Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. The Standard last month challenged bloggers to kontroll the dispatches.
Since then, Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp, of the 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry, has come forward as the author. The New Republ
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Scott Thomas Beauchamp controversy
Arguments about certain reports about American soldiers in Iraq.
The Scott Thomas Beauchamp controversy concerns the publication of a series of diaries by Scott Thomas Beauchamp (b. St. Louis, Missouri) – a private in the United States Army, serving in the Iraq War, and a member of Alpha Company, Infantry, Second Brigade Combat Team, First Infantry Division.[1][2]
In , using the pen name "Scott Thomas", Beauchamp filed three entries in The New Republic (TNR) about serving at forward operating baseFalcon, Baghdad. These entries concerned alleged misconduct by soldiers, including Beauchamp, in post-invasion Iraq.
Several publications and bloggers questioned Beauchamp's statements, specifically episodes in which soldiers were described running over feral dogs, playing with an Iraqi child’s skull, and making cruel comments toward an injured Iraqi civilian woman. A U.S. Army investigation had concluded some statements in t