But such stories have been the exception, he said, calling on papers "to shine the brightest light on the institutions of the state, and on the powerful in general… by exposing actual rot and not just hypocrisy and double standards".
Moreover, there does not appear to be a way to negotiate such a deal; Iraqi officials are still searching for interlocutors through whom to talk to assorted insurgents.Besides, many followers of the Mahdi Army have slipped out of the control of its titular leader, Mr Sadr, who still calls, on paper, for unity between Sunnis and Shias.
I even heard that the right-wing columnist Melanie Phillips - who doesn't work for the Mail any longer - was angrily challenged in the street by a passer-by and called on to defend the paper's position.
As she began sorting through Balzac's papers, she called on his friend, Champfleury, for assistance.
In fact, his personal and professional history are pretty boring, with his past teachers referring to him in terms like "bright and able," and calling one of his papers on abortion a "tour de force".
And she called on the paper's publisher, Rupert Murdoch's News UK, to investigate Mahmood's activities in order to "put an end to his deceit".
The NY Times's public editor, Margaret Sullivan, has found it necessary to deal with complaints and has called on the paper's "associate managing editor for standards", Philip Corbett, to explain why there has been a failure to provide adequate attribution.
Signed by more than 50 journalists and educators, the letter called on the paper to "set the nation's standard by disclosing financial conflicts of interest that their op-ed contributors may have at the time the piece is published".
Mr Campbell unearths an "amazing" 1950 clarion call she gave to a local paper, calling on voters to oppose Russian communism and keep faith with the western way of life.
Now no campaigners have booked full-page advertisements to appear later this week in dozens of regional Irish papers, calling on voters to reject incorporating the right for gay couples to marry into the republic's constitution.
