Posted on 04/26/2005 9:16:06 AM PDT by kristinn
Take the Shaivo (sp?) case. Before she died the media was crowing that "the people don't want the republicans to interfere". Then after she died, some genuine surveys came out and said the opposite.
Today, we're told that 60% of the people don't want the rules changed in the senate (like very many people even understand what the issue is).
Surveys are "Faux News".
I'll offer up my own scoop on the AP spiking a story on the Swift boat vets' initial press conference on May 4, 2004 because it didn't "further the anti-Kerry Vietnam veteran story any."
The Carpal Tunnel Awards will be announced as soon as my fingers straighten out. Self-nominations accepted.
Yes.
Other incidents of writing the news in advance are out there--some quite recent. I think those would be better suited to the Faux News awards.
I know that many obits are written in advance. CNN screwed up big time a couple of years ago by releasing quite a few obits of several prominent and still living (at that point) people. I was drawing attention to the added detail that Michael was at Terri's bed (as if anyone would know beforehand).
Who was the paper that did the clubbing baby seals stories in the first person the day the hunt was postponed? Was that the Boston Globe?
Eason Jordan is another good nominee. I take it his remarks at Davos are what you're nominating him for?
A Boston Globe freelance writer fabricated large chunks of a story published this week, the newspaper said on Friday in the latest incident to embarrass the U.S. media.
The Globe, which is owned by The New York Times Co., said it stopped using writer Barbara Stewart because of a story that ran on Wednesday about a seasonal hunt for baby seals off Newfoundland -- a hunt, it turns out, had not taken place.
The story datelined Halifax, Nova Scotia described in graphic detail how the seal hunt began on Tuesday, with water turning red as hunters on some 300 boats shot harp seal cubs "by the hundreds."
The problem, however, was that the hunt did not begin on Tuesday; it was delayed by bad weather and was scheduled to start on Friday, weather permitting, the Globe said in an editor's note.
Boston Globe Retracts Story by Freelancer it Says was Fabricated
The Boston Globe told readers in an editor's note published Friday that portions of a story it ran on a seal hunt off Newfoundland and Labrador were fabricated by a freelance reporter who was not at the scene.
The Globe said the reporter, Barbara Stewart, did not attend the event, which had actually been postponed because of bad weather, and that Globe editors should have demanded attribution for details she provided about the hunt.
SNIP
The article, published in Wednesday's editions of the Globe, said that the largest seal hunt in a half a century had resumed, involving hunters on about 300 boats "shooting at harp seal cubs by the hundreds, as the ice and water turned red."
In the Eason Jordan category: the Italian Commie reporter who said US troops intentionally targeted her as she was being driven to the Baghdad Airport after being released by terrorists.
In the general award category: Katie Couric. Just because. ;^)
Another one that I can't remember the name though is the reporter from the NYT that resigned about two years ago because all his stories WERE fabricated. Do you know the fellow I'm talking about?
Jayson Blair.
It seems to me there was another recent incident of fabricated news at the Globe, and that doesn't count the plagerism in years past by the likes of Mike Barnicle.
Ditto!!!!!!!!!!!
June 03, 2004 12:20 PM EST NEW YORK Associated Press editors were forced to retract an earlier report that a meteorite might have hit near Olympia, Wash., this morning after discovering that a source, one Bradley Hammermaster, claiming to be an astronomy professor, had perpetrated a hoax.
"An early report that a meteor might have hit turned out to be false," said AP spokesman Jack Stokes. "It looks like a version (of the story) was killed because it talked about a meteorite hitting." He said AP was reviewing how the error occurred.
And, by the way, when is anyone ever gonna call CNN and so many others for falling for and hyping the Raelian clone hoax?
Eason Jordan / Comment in Davos at the WEF (Military targeting journalists):
Mary Mapes / 60 Minutes TANG Producer:
Ben Barnes / Useful Rather idiot (toss in that hateful secretary they dug from the basement too):
CNN / Tool of the Globalist Anti-American Left *:
JYB Transfinitum ^ | March 7, 2005 | B. Preston
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"but since CNN has removed the most relevant parts of it--the ones that actually speak to Sgrena's motives--I"
Posted on 03/08/2005 5:50:38 AM PST by conservativecorner
Over the weekend, I caught CNN removing a damning quote from a story about Italian Communist journalist Guiliana Sgrena, recently released from some form of captivity in Iraq for a reported $6 million ransom, about why she was in Iraq in the first place. She was there, in her own words, to agitate against America and the war--
Sgrena said she "risked everything" to challenge "the Italian government, who didn't want journalists to reach Iraq, and the Americans," who she said don't want the public to see "what really became of that country with the war, and notwithstanding that which they call elections." I ran that quote in my post Sunday. It turns out CNN had also chopped out the next section. Fortunately I still have it. It indicates Sgrena was getting along amicably with her captors: She said she told her captors they could not ask the Italian government to withdraw troops from Iraq -- "their political go-between could not be the government but the Italian people, who were and are against the war." What--she was planning strategy with these goons? Then why was she on video tape begging for her release as though her life was in jeopardy? Perhaps because it gave her the chance to appear before the world and denounce the Americans, an activity that had taken up most of her time even when she was not held "captive" by anyone. In the interests of truth, here is the original version of CNN's story as I received in email over the weekend. Ordinarily, I wouldn't reprint an entire article, but since CNN has removed the most relevant parts of it--the ones that actually speak to Sgrena's motives--I think it's a fair use.
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