Washington Post's pre-emptive strike had accuracy of drive-by shooting

Jewish World Review ^ | 1-2-06 | Jack Kelley

[SJackson]

It was the journalistic equivalent of a drive-by shooting. The targets of Washington Post reporters Jonathan Finer and Doug Struck were two of journalism's favorites: Web loggers and the U.S. military.

"Bloggers, Money, Now Weapons in Information War," read the headline over their story, which appeared last Monday. "U.S. Recruits Advocates to the Front, Pays Iraqi TV Stations for Coverage," the subhed said.

"Retired soldier Bill Roggio was a computer technician living in New Jersey less than two months ago when a Marine officer half a world away made him an offer he couldn't refuse," the story began.

The insinuation of the headline and the lead is that Mr. Roggio was recruited and paid by the Marines to write favorable things about military operations in Iraq.

Drive-by shootings are notoriously inaccurate, and the story by Mr. Finer and Mr. Struck, which ran last Monday, contained so many errors it should be an embarrassment to the Washington Post.

[Doctor Raoul]

The Washington Post is notoriously inaccurate.

Anyone up for a FReep of the Post? They keep putting our troops at risk.

[manwiththehands]

Thank God for the bloggers and FR. The truth is out there ... you just have to put your butt in harms way to find it.

[generally]

Gee, and here we've all been on FR, posting positive stuff for free! In fact, many of us have been paying for the privilege by donating to the FR fundraiser.

Maybe the Washington Compost can tell us where to sign up to get our cut of this propaganda money.

[BoBToMatoE]

Typical garbage from the ComPost.

[W04Man]

Great Article by jack Kelly

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Something smells a little fishy here. Will this story turn out to be another leftist "non-starter" like the college kid who was purportedly investigated by an "agency" after he requested Mao's Little Red Book at his college library - a tale which he subsequently confessed was a fabrication?

[Grampa Dave]

Boycott the WaPo and keep posting threads like this one and sending the replies to the advertisers in the Compost. Then 2006 will be an even worse year re stock value for WPO, the symbol for the Washington Post and NewsWeak.

MDY = Mid Cap index. Any mutual fund manager or stock broker who invested your $s on the Compost/WPO should be sued and turn into the SEC for supporting a left wing dinosaur instead a simple and good investment like MDY, the Mid Cap Index fund.

Massive investment by mutual funds and state retirement funds in WPO, NYT (Ny Slimes, and TRB (Chicago Tribune and La Slimes) are keeping these dinosaurs afloat.

If your mutual fund is heavily invested in these dogs, scream and holler to the fund manager, CEO of the funds and their boards with copies to their boards.

[Condor51]

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WaPo's Preemptive Strike Against Bill Roggio
By Jack Kelly

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

[Cicero]

it should be an embarrassment to the Washington Post.

Newspapers like the Washington Post and the New York Times don't have time to be embarrassed by their mistakes. They are on to the next propanda strike.

They are so used to controlling all the news and getting away with their intricate lies that they still haven't woken up to the fact that their profits are going, going . . . gone.

[billhilly]

""Finer and Struck are experienced journos, but their reporting in this instance contained so many errors of basic fact that one wonders how on earth this example of their work made it into print," Tapscott said.

They probably have "paid" fact checkers and editors. We wouldn't want that would we?

[Common Tator]

The only things newspapers ever get wrong is the stuff you know about.

[OldPossum]

When I once worked in the Washington area, I often saw bumper stickers that read: "I Don't Believe The Post."

That gives you a clue as to that rag's credibility.

[MNJohnnie]

Screw Freepin' the scum at the Wash Poop. I am going to go donated money to Roggio at his website.