Associated Press Apologizes for Its Coverage of the Irish Orphanage Story

Seasons of Grace ^ | June 20, 2014 | Kathy Schiffer

[NYer]

Associated Press has issued an apology for its errant reporting regarding claims of a mass grave for children of unwed mothers on the grounds of Tuam Home, an Irish home for unwed mothers.

Since the disturbing story broke early this month regarding the Tuam Home for unwed mothers in Ireland, where 796 babies were purportedly “dumped into a septic tank”, the Patheos bloggers have been on the case.

[Brian Kopp DPM]

Spin it any way you want bud, but everyone sees your behavior for what it was.

[jocon307]

you know a lot of babies and children died in those days. It’s not like it is today. My grandmother’s older brother and sister both died but the remaining members of that brood survived.

Today we kill children before they are even born and many of the people who’ve been unctuously wringing their hands over the fate of these Irish babies think that’s just swell.

[Tax-chick]

;-).

I’ve known only a handful of nuns. They all seemed like nice old ladies, but *wooga wooga*, who knows ...

[Holdem Or Foldem]

[AHerald]

Who was the reporter responsible for this hoax?

Hoax is too soft a description. Blood libel is more appropriate.

[verga]

LFC and the rest of the usual suspects kept repeating the lie over and over. Anything that will smear the Catholic Church will be regurgitated and embellished by these ner do well muck rakers.

[NYer]

Where are all the FR usual suspects offering their apologies for gleefully spreading this lie?

Deep breath .. and a dose of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen.

[wonkowasright]

I read a report earlier that the one given credit for the story was openly insisting she did not write it.

[wonkowasright]

‘I never used that word ‘dumped’,” Catherine Corless, a local historian in Co Galway, tells The Irish Times. “I never said to anyone that 800 bodies were dumped in a septic tank. That did not come from me at any point. They are not my words.”

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/deaconsbench/2014/06/taum-historian-dismayed-at-media-coverage-i-never-used-the-word-dumped/

Ok so the researcher, the source, said the reporter lied. Ok.

[verga]

So there are three things I guess you want us to apologize for:<>P>Actually no there is just one thing you and the rest of the usual suspects need to apologize for. Anything else presented by the LSM all of you view with a jaundiced eye, and you should. Unless it is about the Catholic Church and then the motto is pile on and everything is fair game. That is what the FRprotestants need to apologize for.

[Gamecock]

Ohh, you have a nice ribbon there!

Congratulations!

[verga]

Have you pinged the usual suspects?

I would like to see if any of them have the integrity to admit that there were rash in their condemnations.

[goodwithagun]

I addressed the post to Laissez-faire capitalist, who twice a few days ago posted nasty articles alleging a Church coverup of this. He insisted that the story was true, regardless of what others told him.

[Jeff Chandler]

Those who want to believe nuns are in the business of murdering children will simply declare this “fake but accurate” and insist it’s genuine evidence of Catholic evil.

That's the vibe I was getting from most of the Freeper comments on these articles.

[Tax-chick]

I hope it’s just an internet misunderstanding of motives, because if there are really people like that, it’s horrid.

[verga]

I hope it’s just an internet misunderstanding of motives, because if there are really people like that, it’s horrid.

There is no misunderstanding of motives. You will also find that the ex-Catholics and those that claim to be are among the worst.

[Vendome]

Oh.

[sitetest]

The lamestream media - and all the usual suspects in this foul place - are just plain old Catholic-hating, God-hating enemies of God.

We should pray for them that they will not suffer the eternal fate they have earned for themselves.

[narses]

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