[weegee]

Media Schadenfreude and Media Shenanigans

The Boston Globe was reeling yesterday after graphic photos of alleged sexual abuse of Iraqi women by U.S. soldiers turned out to be staged shots from a hardcore porn Web site.

They believed they were real because they wanted to believe they were real. The photos were provided by a member of the Nation of Islam. What is not mentioned in this story is that they likely came from the arab press which ran such photos on the front page.

World Net Daily discovered the hoax and it was confirmed by the US Government. The US Embassy in Cairo asked the arab press for a retraction. I do not know that it ever came.

If the media wasn't so intolerant as to exclude conservative news sources, they would have been alerted to the issue. WND even brought up the subject at a White House press conference this week. There is no reason that the media did not pick up on the story other than bias.

The writer at the Boston Herald acknowledges the World Net Daily report. The Boston Herald's gloat over the Boston Globe is well deserved.

[NukeMan]

They believed they were real because they wanted to believe they were real.

Well said, weegee. Spot on.

[T'wit]

Thanks for a very useful briefing.

[The G Man]

"They believed they were real because they wanted to believe they were real"

DING! DING! DING! No more calls .. WE HAVE A WINNER!

PS - Nice tagline. "Hey CNN ... No blood for ratings" was a G Man original after the controversy over their Baghdad coverup :>)

[Nick Danger]

They believed they were real because they wanted to believe they were real.

We have a winner.

[BlessedByLiberty]

Interesting how quickly the Partisan Press are printing these photos to change public opinion of the military and the WOT.

Because of retractions, outright fraud as in the UK's Mirror, the Partisan Press is crying "WOLF" too often.