Excellent wrap-ups on Reuters and Reutersgate
We wrote about Reutersgate below. Bruce Kesler has an excellent wrap-up, bringing together many disparate strands of the story; silly us — we had completely forgotten the alibi that Reuters had previously used to explain why it would not use the word “terrorist.” Now we all know better of course.
UPDATE
Thomas Lifson also has a very good piece on Reutersgate, calling for an investigation by “an outside panel of experts.” Hah! We all saw what happened in the whitewash that was the Thornburgh / Boccardi report in the Rathergate matter. Such reports are often cover-ups and back-scratching at the board of directors level.
More promising potentially, at least in our opinion, may be his targeting of AP as perhaps the next Reuters. AP has just run a dreadful story on Iraq and WMD, calling those who still believe the connection delusional or blinkered. The believers are “a drumbeat of voices from talk radio to die-hard bloggers to the Oval Office” who are “independent of reality.” Of course, as we have pointed out time and again, Iraq had WMD at the time of the US invasion. One may dispute the amount and meaning of its WMD, but of their existence there can be no doubt.
AP’s track record of bias is no less appalling than Reuters. We have cited plenty of examples from time to time. John Hinderaker has done excellent work on this too over the years. Perhaps AP faces a day of reckoning soon too. That would be nice.
August 7th, 2006 at 12:02 pm
reutergate
By now, many people know of reutergate a yet another scandal where news is faked. Other recent examples include overstatements of casualty figures, staging of rescue / body-display scenes. Granddaddy “rathergateâ€? from 2004 is still a freshly…
August 7th, 2006 at 2:54 pm
Dear Jack,
Aren’t you smelling the fear. When CNN jumps on changing “massacre” death count from 40
to 1 and gives a long segment to the murders of Iraqi children* by buried explosives at their soccer asphalt street “fields” something is up. FOX is doing great job of covering the media manipulation in all its aspects.
So please don’t poo-pah the idea of an “outside panel”. We must strike while the story is hot and press the clean up (at least winnowing) on the LSM “Old Media”.
No way is Thomas calling for anything resembling “whitewash that was the Thornburgh / Boccardi report in the Rathergate matter“.
Read the outline that Ajacksonian presents for establishing veracity by a panel that could truly do the job:
Media Review Panel For Fairness In Reporting.
It’s a dream team and that is what is needed. The manipulation of news is getting people killed and making the threat to the civilized world stronger. The fact that the elite “global citizens” are
assisting them should be reason for firing squads IMHO. But I’ll settle for Ajacksonian’s outlined panel.
Thomas Lifson’s new column today:
Institutional Failure at Reuters by Thomas Lifson
We must not let this opportunity slip away and wish you on board with suggestions for its success.
*GatewayPundit covered the Iraqi childrens’ deaths and injuries in height of Qana “outrage”, noting no outrage
for children as targets of “Iraq’s freedom fighters”.