Farnaz Fassihi no longer reporting from Baghdad

Thanks to Jane Redmont for noting that Farnaz Fassihi, the reporter whose e-mail report from Iraq was linked to a Doonesbury cartoon, is a woman (not a man as I had written). I’m clearly pretty sexist in my assumptions about who might be reporting from Baghdad! Sigh. Jane also pointed me off to a disturbing report that this reporter is now off the beat in Iraq. While it’s not clear if her shift in status is directly tied to the email becoming public, it would not be surprising if it were so. The Wall Street Journal would only be following a long pattern established by other mainstream news organizations of silencing reporters whose personal opinions become public knowledge. Remember the CNN blogger?