It's Not Just Scott Beauchamp

The American Thinker ^ | 08-16-2007 | By Randall Hoven

[Izzy Dunne]

Great job of formatting.

Thanks fot the compliment, but I didn't do anything except:

• Go to the article.
• VIEW SOURCE.
• Find the article meat (without all the ads).
• Copy the meat portions.
• Paste into new post.
• Preview.

[Izzy Dunne]

CBS, Dan Rather, Mary Mapes (2004). Fell for fake documents.

I don't think they "fell" for anything.

If they were duped, they would eventually figure it out and say "whoops".
They engineered it. Maybe they didn't design it, but they engineered it.

[the anti-liberal]

Bookmarked!!

[MediaMole]

This isn’t the first time that photographer was caught with “elderly woman and pristine bullets.” The first had a woman claiming the bullets had hit her bed.

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2007/08/busted-another-bogus-sadr-city-bullet.html

[Cyber Liberty]

"Matt Drudge's role in the Monica Lewinski scandal] strikes me as a new and graphic power of the Internet to influence mainstream journalism. And I suspect that over the next couple of years that impact will grow to the point where it will damage journalism's ability to do its job professionally, to check out information before publication, to be mindful of the necessity to publish and broadcast reliable, substantiated information." -- Marvin Kalb in 1998

Actually, Kalb is speaking very honestly in that quote, when you consider it in the context of the belief taught in J-school that reporters are to be more than merely reporters, but agents of change (activists). It's a lot harder to out-and-out lie in news accounts when you have thousands of fact checkers reading over your shoulder.

:^)

[SunTzuWu]

Well done. Thanks.

[Carbonado]

“These offenses have been going on for years, long before the Internet. But there does seems to be a rise in the number of reported offenses in recent years. Did the number of offenses go up, or did the fraction of discovered offenses go up?”

Thats it exactly, and that was the unspoken concern of ‘ol Marvin - That realized they were losing the ability to effectively manicure the “news” to conform to their Liberal agenda. The Internet means that the media cannot (effectively) continue to lie, distort and manicure away the facts they wish to in order to present their “truth”, or at least when they do they are immediately held to account by the pajamas bloggers.

[longtermmemmory]

how about “made in the USA” pitures in the middle east?

How about the FAKE FUNERALS?

[Sloth]

I e-mailed him suggesting the addition of the BBC / Gilligan affair.

[Leisler]

Wouldn’t it be easier and quicker to list the three MSM journalist that arn’t liars and frauds?

[RatSlayer]

Another possible addition:

There was a reporter who claimed she was standing on the White House lawn when she was actually in the studio standing in front of a green screen. IIRC it was Diane Sawyer. Someone please correct me if I’m wrong.

[Sloth]

And the 'Food Lion' sting by Primetime Live years ago.

[Old North State]

The Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Peace Prize just ain’t all they’re cracked up to be....

The Pulitzer prize is the voice of the press talking to itself.
The Nobel peace prize is the voice of the left laughing up it's sleeve.

[Tenniel2]

Stunning compilation. But he missed the granddaddy, or rather Uncle, of them all: Walter Cronkite’s vicious and comtemptible spinning of the Tet Offensive.

[shortstop]

Wasn’t it Mrs. Greenspan? It was too cold out for her.

[Smartaleck]

Bump and thanks for putting this most cool story out formatted correctly!

[Jet Jaguar]

Another possible addition.

The House Select Committee on American Activities in regard to communist spies.

Many leftist were labeled.

The press reported it at the time and then tried to pocket it.

McCarthy was vilified by the press for pushing that many of these people were spies or at least sympathizers.

Turns out many of these named were actually working for or had KGB ties.

h/t Ann Coulter

[Starstruck]

BTT

[Suzy Quzy]

No...it was Diane Sawyer.

[GSWarrior]

GREAT post.