[mdlug-discuss] [mdlug] Is MS bribing bloggers?

[Aaron Kulkis]

allen wrote:
> Ingles, Raymond wrote:
>>  You're long on conclusions and short on specific examples, from what
>> I can see. Hint hint.
>>
>>  Sincerely,
>>
>>  Ray Ingles                                      (313) 227-2317
>>   
> Well, there's Rathergate.
> 
> More recently there's the illusive Iraqi police lieutenant that AP has 
> grown fond of.
> 


Recently, also AP made up a story about 6 Shi'ites being burned alive
at a Sunni mosque in downtown Baghdad...  quoting anonymous sources.
Both US Army and Iraqi Police said we have no knowledge of this --
can you get some specific information.

AP, instead of responding with information which could be followed up
and investigated, did the "how dare you try to censor us" scheme.

Sorry, those of us not in the journalism business expect that when
a reporter reports something, that he or she has actual, firsthand
knowledge of what he's reporting, not merely repeating whatever
propaganda shows up in the fax machine...


> Dipping back into the past a bit there's CNN's deep concern with their 
> Iraqi employees which resulted in CNN becoming a defacto arm of the 
> Iraqi Ministry of Information. I believe the New York Times has gotten 
> in a couple of licks on what's left of the concept of journalistic 
> ethics as well although I'm not sure whether neo-anti-Semitism or the 
> denial of global warming denial merits the bigger pie in the face.
> 
> Allen