Editor defensive over discredited Iraq reports (shows the media lied about Iraq once again)

The Australian ^ | June 23, 2005

[jmc1969]

THE editor of Melbourne's The Age newspaper has defended Australia's Journalist of the Year, Paul McGeough, in the wake of revelations that he may have erred in two significant reports he filed from Iraq.

McGeough claimed in an article published in The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald that former Iraqi interim leader Iyad Allawi shot dead as many as six prisoners in June last year.

But the story was discredited by a report yesterday that Iraqi officials and US special forces bodyguards assigned to Allawi had passed lie detector tests in denying the murder allegations.

"My view is that we have to trust our journalists," The Age editor Andrew Jaspan said yesterday.

"Paul McGeough is a former editor-in-chief of the Sydney Morning Herald - (an) extremely well-respected journalist. It's not as though he's wet behind the ears when he goes to somewhere like Iraq.

[No Longer Free State]

Isn't "well-respected reporter" an oxymoron?

[SkyPilot]

"My view is that we have to trust our journalists," The Age editor Andrew Jaspan said yesterday.

[Random Nonsense]

.. Melbourne's The Age newspaper ..

Speaking of a liberal newspaper, they are all the same everywhere.

Just reading the "Your Say" section, the melbournians (let me say some of them) are like democrats in the US. :)

[Calpernia]

This ping is in defense of published propaganda; but indeed good news for Iraq and the Coalition.

McGeough claimed in an article published in The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald that former Iraqi interim leader Iyad Allawi shot dead as many as six prisoners in June last year.

But the story was discredited by a report yesterday that Iraqi officials and US special forces bodyguards assigned to Allawi had passed lie detector tests in denying the murder allegations.

[maestro]

thanks

[Treader]

So, memo monkeys & fiddling filers are not confined to the US media? Hard to believe...j/k

[Pikamax]

Paul McGeough is the australian version of Robert Fisk without the intelligence.

[SkyPilot]

I think this editor is going home to put his old, favorite VHS tape in his machine, titled: "When Diosaurs Ruled the Media."

[SandRat]

Say is McGeough of The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald a Suma cum Luade graduate of the the Dan Blather, Jason Blair, Eason Jordon, Michael Isakoff school of Journalism?

[Calpernia]

When Dinosaurs Ruled the Media, information from news was a service, not a profit mechanism.

[SkyPilot]

Ack! I misspelled "Dinosaurs."

[Calpernia]

Typo? I dont sea no stinkan typo.







Queen of all tipos

[smoothsailing]

Bump.

[Shortstop7]

Whatever happened to all those "supposedly fired" from CBS...but refused to go quietly? Mapes and the gang, I mean.

Did that story disappear?

[jess35]

So.....even when journalists are caught fabricating stories....we're supposed to just trust them because, after all, they're journalists.

Did I get that right?

[piasa]

presstitute ping

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Americanexpat]

Even if the story were true and Allawi (an Iraqi) killed six terrorists why should I care. He is only doing what I think we should be doing anyway. If we find a car bomb factory or a hostage prisoner site and capture the terrorists in them they should be shot on the spot.

[Tunehead54]

Sorry but there's a couple there ... here you go ...

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