What should we expect from the professional commentariats???
Curt from Flopping Aces about an AP article....
As we have learned quite well over the years the enemy will try to stir the pot with doctored photo's or outright lies as Patterico documented. Now the (ap's) story about those Sunni's being burned alive appears to have been a fairy tale also.
From the Boston Herald:
Say no to AP’s shoddy work
By Jules Crittenden
Boston Herald City Editor
Sunday, December 3, 2006 - Updated: 02:46 AM EST
When a company defrauds its customers, or delivers shoddy goods, the customers sooner or later are going to take their business elsewhere. But if that company has a virtual monopoly, and offers something its customers must have, they may have no choice but to keep taking it.
That’s when the customers, en masse, need to raise a stink. That’s when someone else with the resources needs to seriously consider whether the time is ripe to compete.
The Associated Press is embroiled in a scandal. Conservative bloggers, the new media watchdogs, lifted a rock at the AP.
Curt at Floppingaces, www.floppingaces2.blogspot.com, led the charge. He thought there was something strange about an AP report, and took a second look at it, then a third look. He and others blew the lid off it. The AP is making up war crimes. But the resulting stink in the blogosphere has barely wrinkled a nose in the mainstream press. The ethics-obsessed Poynter Institute seems to be oblivious to it.
It has to do with the AP’s Iraqi stringers and an oft-quoted Iraqi police captain named Jamil Hussein. Problem is, the Iraqi police say Capt. Hussein does not exist. The Iraqi police and U.S. military say an incident described in an AP report - Iraqi soldiers standing by as people were burned alive in a mosque - didn’t happen. Another AP-reported incident, U.S. soldiers shooting 11 civilians, also never happened, the military says.
Read the rest of the Boston Herald article at:
http://news.bostonherald.com/columnists/view.bg?articleid=170263&srvc=news
Read the Flopping Aces article...
Getting The News From The Enemy
Posted by Curt on November 25, 2006 at 8:54 AM
Yesterday there were two incidents that I wrote about involving the use of enemy propagandists by our MSM. Now take a look at the latest "all hell is breaking loose" report on Iraq, from the AP of course:
AP BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen broke into two Shiite homes and killed 21 men in front of their relatives in an Iraqi village, police said Saturday, as Vice President Dick Cheney sought Saudi Arabia's help in calming
Iraq after an especially violent week of sectarian violence. U.S. and Iraqi forces also killed 58 insurgents during fighting north of the capital, they said.
Baghdad remained under a 24-hour curfew two days after suspected Sunni insurgents killed 215 people in Baghdad's main Shiite district with a combination of bombs and mortars.
Another 87 people were killed or found dead in sectarian violence across Iraq on Friday. The chaos cast a shadow over the summit next week between Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and President Bush in Amman, Jordan.
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Curt from Flopping Aces continues....
As we have learned quite well over the years the enemy will try to stir the pot with doctored photo's or outright lies as Patterico documented. Now the story about those Sunni's being burned alive appears to have been a fairy tale also.
You think we will hear that this raid on two houses maybe embellished also?
I mean the only think I can take away from this report that has a ring of truth to it is the fact that the US and Iraqi forces engaged the enemy north of town killing up to 60 more of the enemy.
There are 5 updates to the Flopping Aces story on AP's deception... read them all here:
http://www.floppingaces.net/2006/11/25/getting-the-news-from-the-enem/
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