A minor but potentially amusing aside in the Bobby Caina Calvan affair, though I wouldn't wait for McClatchy to clear it up.
Mike Drummond appears to be with McClatchy via the Charlotte Observer - he blogged during a stint in Iraq. A McClatchy byline here.
Via lgf we also know Bobby Caina Calvan used a McClatchy employee, Jenan Hussein, to get details on a story of an attack in Sadr City.
Jenan, a Shiite member of our staff of local reporters, went to work to track down witnesses.
Jenan Hussein's McClatchy bylines are easy to find. She included a joke in a story on the electric grid here.
Child: "Mother, mother! Daddy was electrocuted!" Mother: "We have power?" — Popular Iraqi joke
So, who does Drummond quote, without disclosure, when writing on the electric grid here? Yeah, a Jenan Hussein.
With no regulatory oversight, the overlords of these ersatz power stations extort residents, who are desperate for air conditioning and power to run refrigerators.
“I know it is not right that they make us pay,” says Jenan Hussein, whose Baghdad neighborhood is run by Shiite militia members. “But what other choice do I have?”
Well, unless it's a name similarity, Drummond might have chosen to disclose his using a McClatchy employee as a source.
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