Comments on: Decapitating the Truth

By: thetruth

thetruth — Sat, 17 May 2008 21:00:55 +0000

If you look up to fox news, you drank the koolaid.

By: Orson

Orson — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 07:08:34 +0000

I think I gave up on relying on the MSM in 1998. For instance, when lying before a federal judge by the foremost man in the country charged with upholding the law and carrying out his duties became – instead – just “lying about sex.”

It’s this kind of dissimultude that made this “news junky” just give up!

Alternative media only.

By: RJH

RJH — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 19:46:05 +0000

One has to ask if this is intentional lying on the part of the media or just laziness and stupidity. Maybe its both. Thanks to Michael Yon for doing the medias job on reporting this.

By: mom32051

mom32051 — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 05:03:30 +0000

Not only are AP stories frequently erroneous, they are just as frequently unintelligible. The writing is so awful that I have come to believe they don’t even have editors any more; much less anyone doing oversight on the veracity of the reporting.

By: Pat Dailey

Pat Dailey — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 16:21:15 +0000

How can the AP claim the story is false when they didn’t even send a reporter to the village. Michael Yon was the only reporter on site and published pictures.

I think this is a case of the media club rejecting an outsider.

By: BlueFalcon

BlueFalcon — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 14:35:10 +0000

“I’d like to inject a little reality into all this outrage. First of all, it didn’t take AP “days” to cast doubt on the story… It in fact took hours.”

Sorry but if a story came into doubt that quickly, it should have never have been reported as news in the first place. Unsubstantiated rumors do not equate to news until there is some verifiable evidence to the contrary.

By: get2djnow

get2djnow — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 08:54:54 +0000

Great job! It’s nice to see someone hold the media responsible for their blatant errors. If the A w/Terrorists P wants to maintain any credibility… forget it, it’s too late.

By: troothsurch

troothsurch — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 08:25:43 +0000

I’d like to inject a little reality into all this outrage. First of all, it didn’t take AP “days” to cast doubt on the story… It in fact took hours. The day they reported the 20 beheaded bodies, they immediately had sources saying it may not be true. This is the AP’s lead that day:

BAGHDAD (AP) _ A car bomb killed 22 people Thursday in a bus station in western Baghdad, and police said 20 beheaded bodies had been discovered on the banks of the Tigris River southeast of the capital. Government security officials raised doubts about the decapitation report.

The AP story says a U.S. aircraft spotted what appeared to be 5 bodies, but a searach team went out and found nothing. Giving a reason why someone might believe the report to be credible, but at the same time, raising the likelihood that is was false.

But more broadly…. All this fury that the MSM is purposely “ignoring” al-Qaida massacres puzzles me, in light of the 20 bodies story from Salman Pak. Note this paragraph in the Salman Pak story:

Salman Pak and the surrounding area have been the focus of new U.S. military operations to oust extremists from the Baghdad’s outskirts. Salman Pak was once a major headquarters for Saddam Hussein’s security services and was long reported to be a training center for non-Iraqi Arab terrorists.

“Non-Iraqi Arab terrorists”? ie- al-Qaida. In other words, AP and others were TRYING to report on what appeared to be an al-Qaida massacre. It turned out to be false and incorrect. Now they’re getting attacked for trying to report one al-Qaida massacre, AND attacked for NOT reporting on another. Seems odd to me.
I don’t know why the AP and MSM aren’t reporting on the massacre reported by Michael Yon. Someone has to ask them.
But I do know that some people are going nuts over a non-issue.

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 01:41:11 +0000

I should think that honest journalists and editorials would make it standard practice to publicize (”burn”) any sources that give them bad information. Put their names, jobs, and locations out when they are found to have fabricated information, and there will be a deterent.

By: Brian H

Brian H — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 00:59:38 +0000

I guess the reason AP and the rest of the MSM isn’t carrying the Yon story is that it’s scrupulously documented and complete with photographs. Rumours and imaginary events are so much more pliable and convenient.