Separating Hyperbole From Horror in Iraq ("mad blog rabble" fuels AP scandal)

New York Times ^ | 12-04-06 | Tom Zeller

[atomic conspiracy]

Separating Hyperbole From Horror in Iraq

By TOM ZELLER Jr. Published: December 4, 2006 Over the course of last week, an Associated Press article — one subsequently challenged by the military — in which six Sunni worshipers were reportedly doused in kerosene and burned alive by Shiite attackers, became the worst kind of totem.

For bloggers who believe that the media has been drawing false pictures of mayhem in Iraq, the insistence of the American military and Iraqi officials that the burning incident appeared to be a mere rumor was proof that their suspicions were correct.

“Getting the News From the Enemy” was how the Flopping Aces blog (floppingaces.net) tracked the developing face-off between the military and A.P.

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The executive editor of The Associated Press, Kathleen Carroll, in a meeting in her office Friday afternoon, explained that the agency had already done all it could to respond to the uncertainties by vigorously re-reporting the article, and suggested that to engage these questions — to continue to write about them — merely fueled a mad blog rabble that would never be satisfied.

[atomic conspiracy]

"Mad blog rabble"

I rather like it, has a nice whiff of the Bastille and Tuileries Palace about it.

Kathleen Carroll (looking down from office window): "Oh dear! Why are the rabble rioting?"

APe Sycophant: "Because they have no news!"

Kathleen (chortling): "Then let them eat fake!"

[Billthedrill]

A "mad blog rabble"? (Adjusting pajama top) Would those not also be known as "readers"?

[JennysCool]

Kathleen Carroll

America will not survive unless women like this are removed from positions of power.

[ApplegateRanch]

Then there was The Associated Press itself, which by Friday had come to view the continued scrutiny of its article as evidence that everyone — the military, the blogosphere, even other media outlets tracking the back-and-forth — was either agenda-driven, insolent, or both, but not legitimately curious.

The international editor of the A.P., John Daniszewski, said in a statement Tuesday that the military’s questioning of the original sourcing on the article was “frankly ludicrous and hints at a certain level of desperation to dispute or suppress the facts of the incident in question.”

In view of all of the fully documented fauxtography; all of the incomplete, factually incorrect, and just plain fake articles & "news" segments that are routinely busted, this Daniszewski's statments are pure, lucicrous chutzpah.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

that the military’s questioning of the original sourcing on the article was “frankly ludicrous

Following in the path of Dan Rather....Fake but TRUE!

[samadams2000]

**Mad Blog Rabbel Alert***

Sam Adams would be so proud of us.

[Liberty Valance]

Where's my mad blog rabble pin?

[rockinqsranch]

WE want not only a "Mad Blog Rabble Pins", but we also want "Mad Blog Rabble Bumper Stickers, Sweat Shirts, T-Shirts, Jackets, caps, and flags.

[peeps36]

It's not hard to dupe news organizations who are actively looking for stories that hurt Americas war effort.

[ARealMothersSonForever]

ping

[TexKat]

The alleged war atrocity that the NYTimes can't substantiate

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1748172/posts

It's Official: Media Body Burning Story is Bogus (Shiite vs. Sunni)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1744813/posts