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SCHLUSSEL: Jihad Journalism: Detroit News' Fabricated Terror "Reporting"
DebbieSchlussel.com ^
| May 11, 2005
| Debbie Schlussel
Posted on 05/11/2005 10:00:11 AM PDT by Cool Chick
Jihad Journalism: Detroit News Fabricated Terrorism Reporting May 11, 2005
By Debbie Schlussel
Former Terrorism Suspect is Deported: Moroccan . . . Was Forced to Leave, screamed a sympathetic headline in Gannetts Detroit News, last week.
Problem is, the deportation of alleged Detroit terror cell member Ahmed Hannan never happened. Hannan is still here.
And other details in the apocryphal article by Detroit News reporter David Shepardson were also wrong or made-up. The May 3, 2005 article claimed that Hannanwho planned to blow up U.S. tourist sites and a U.S. Air Force Base in Turkeywas deported two weeks before the article ran. Yet, hes still here. The article also reported that Hannans teeth were knocked out in a jailhouse fight, last month. But the fight happened on February 10, 2005, three months ago.
Had Shepardson done the least amount of real reporting ie., fact-checking with the jail and the federal government, in whose custody Hannan remainshe would have discovered the truth. But Shepardson relied exclusively on alleged terrorist Hannans lawyer, Jim Thomas, for the entire story, and never checked a thing. (By the way, the sob-story Detroit News headline about Hannan being Forced to Leave? Hannan pled guilty to a federal crime. Should he be allowed to stay?)
Why is David Shepardsons phony story cause for concern? Because Shepardson is The Detroit News primary reporter on the domestic War on Islamic Terror, in the heart of Islamic America. He is the News primary reporter on Federal law enforcement, the Justice Department, and the U.S. Attorneys Office in Detroit. His stories get picked up and run all over America via the Gannett News Service wire.
Yet, neither Shepardson, nor his editors, did even the most basic fact-checking or research for this and, we can assume, most of . . . .
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WOW! Debbie Schlussel really caught the Detroit News and this reporter, David Shepardson, with their pants down! I wonder if they will fire the guy and his editors. Making up stories to make terrorists look good, relying on terrorists' lawyers as the sole source for a story? Really incredible.
To: prairiebreeze; Mo1
Reporter fabricated an entire story.
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posted on
05/11/2005 10:06:07 AM PDT
by
Peach
To: Cool Chick
I guess this means that the defense lawyer was lying. They wouldn't do that,...would they?
To: Cool Chick
Disclaimer.
Stories may or may not contain factual information.
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posted on
05/11/2005 10:07:27 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Anyone who thinks we believe Hillary on any issue is truly a moron.)
To: Cool Chick
Surprising because The Detroit News tends to the right side of the spectrum whereas the Detroit Free Press is more liberal. Of course since the joint operating agreement that may be void.
To: Cool Chick
The Detroit News is supposed to be the "conservative" Detroit newspaper. The liberal paper, The Detroit Free Press, is sort of the Mpls Star-Tribune for Dummies.
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posted on
05/11/2005 10:08:46 AM PDT
by
RightWingAtheist
(Creationism is not conservative!)
To: Cool Chick
The Detroit News has gone downhill ever since Tom Bray stopped running the show. It's now all Deb Price, all the time.
In fact, I actually prefer the Free Press to the News. Dawson Bell does a good job, and I can respect a leftist more than wishy-washy tripe.
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posted on
05/11/2005 10:13:33 AM PDT
by
Dan from Michigan
("My guvnor don't got the answer")
To: Mikey_1962
The Detroit News tends to the right side of the spectrum Not since Tom Bray was in charge.
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posted on
05/11/2005 10:15:14 AM PDT
by
Dan from Michigan
("My guvnor don't got the answer")
To: Peach
He asked a lawyer for story points. Why am I not surprised, PFFFTT!
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posted on
05/11/2005 10:30:12 AM PDT
by
prairiebreeze
(Hillary's Chappaquiddick. Check it out at: www.Hillcap.org)
To: Peach
Rush doesn't call Detroit "New Fallujah" for nothing!
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posted on
05/11/2005 10:30:35 AM PDT
by
Shortwave
(Ted Kennedy’s rhetoric has killed more American soldiers than his car has killed women.)
To: Dan from Michigan
I agree, Dan. I do not consider the News conservative and haven't for years. I prefer the Freep - at least I know what i am getting and the online version is superior to the mess of the News' website.
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posted on
05/11/2005 10:36:25 AM PDT
by
Oystir
To: Cool Chick
How can anything he has reported about the Detroit Terrorism case be believed? He has written a lot of very slanted articles in favor of the terrorists. What is the Detroit News' agenda anyway?
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posted on
05/11/2005 12:29:18 PM PDT
by
SandraD
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posted on
05/11/2005 2:01:44 PM PDT
by
Alouette
(The truth is not hard to kill, but a lie told well is immortal. -- Mark Twain)
To: Dan from Michigan
Deb Price is the male Morford.
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posted on
05/11/2005 4:01:14 PM PDT
by
RightWingAtheist
(Creationism is not conservative!)
To: Cool Chick
Another reason Detroit is really New Falloujah!
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
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posted on
05/11/2005 4:08:02 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: Cool Chick
We really need to start enforcing the "Ann Coulter Rule" on Schlussel-related threads.
YOWZAH!
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posted on
05/11/2005 4:44:09 PM PDT
by
MrJingles
(I need more cowbell!)
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posted on
05/11/2005 5:58:25 PM PDT
by
SJackson
(The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love, Andre Malraux)
To: Cool Chick
Are you sure this wasn't the Boston Globe?
Amazing.
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posted on
05/12/2005 5:19:18 AM PDT
by
trisham
("Live Free or Die," General John Stark, July 31, 1809)
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I've heard that the state of Michigan is getting ready to take over governance of Detroit. The state took over the Detroit school system some years ago.
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posted on
05/12/2005 10:57:06 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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