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Posted on 04/09/2003 5:25:48 AM PDT by Diogenesis
BREAKING: BOSTON GLOBE FABRICATES (as usual, plagiarists attack USA)
FReeRepublic Exclusive [Howie Carr, are you listening?]
Yesterday, the entire front page top-of-the-fold story in the Boston Globe was a libel
on US forces. It was inaccurate and made up by the Boston Globe.
The actual pictures was AP and had the headline,
"U.S. Army Stf. Sgt. Chad Touchett, center, relaxes with comrades from
A Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, following a search in
one of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s palaces damaged after a bombing,
in Baghdad Monday, April 7, 2003.(AP Photo/John Moore)."
The proof of this tagline caption is:
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So what was done?
The Bow-tied Clinton-bum kissers at the Boston Globe attacked the US forces
by MAKING UP a caption, and replacing the original (above)
with the following:
BOSTON GLOBE: Tues 4/8/03
"Staff Seargeant Chad Touchett enjoyed a cigarette yesterday in a presidential
palace in Baghada. US troops rifled through files and helped themselves to souvenirs."
However, there is no evidence of the Boston Globe's claim.
The fabricating Boston Globe fabricated their byline, and within hours
all radio talk shows began attacking US forces as the Boston Globe's
team of fabricators and plagiarists maliciously intended.
CONCLUSION: Their Boston Globe editors, plagiarists, and fabricators have helped
THEMSELVES and their captive readers to their own "truth" yet again.
Is there a FReeper who can organize a FReep of this vicious deliberately-misleading inaccuracy?
Seriously, my response to this was aimed at the one situation that was presented here. That is my basic mindset on things, I deal with individual situations and circumstances as they're presented and don't try to broad-brush anything or take anything for granted or assume anything.
The other stuff you and everybody else have said about the Boston Globe and how they've covered the war and other stuff? I have not the slightest doubt that you're telling the truth. Except for Jeff Jacoby's stuff, I basically avoid the Boston Globe like a plague when I look at other newspapers' offerings on the wire for the very reasons you've started. They used to have one columnist whose name escapes me right now, I think he's on some kind of sabbatical from the paper, but reading his stuff used to get me so mad to the point of absolutely stroking out, because he was always insulting the Sun Belt States (where I live) and holding up the big urban areas of the Northeast as being the absolute nirvana of the United States.
But again, my sole focus here was on this specific instance, because I will stake my conservative beliefs and support for this war and for President Bush against anyone else who posts here, but from a strictly professional journalistic standpoint I could very easily see myself having done that the same way the Globe did.
Maybe that's a sign that I am too principled and a bit naive, and don't take the street fight we're in with the opposition seriously enough. Who knows?
I was a "journalist" too for a long time....although in my day we were simply "reporters" and my job (and everybody else's) was a simple one...get the facts right.
No matter how you justify the Globe's action, the simple fact is that Page One - above the fold is the place for SIGNIFICANT news of interest to the readers, NOT, the biased opinions of some liberal Pulitzer wannabe.
Let's see if tomorrow's Boston Glop prints a page one pix of enthusiastic newly freed Iraqis looting their government leaders homes and offices as shown on TV.
What reall pisses them off is that the Marines are smoking
The army corp of engineers should immediatly begin work on the Iraq-Massachusetts pipeline. And every April 9th from now on is National FREE GASOLINE DAY for all Americans.
taking ashtrays...ha ...take everything.
And we have to ATTACK the liberal media every time they do this, otherwise, they are so stupid that they believe we accept their spin as the truth.
Right on, Diogenesis.
As a U.S. Soldier I can assure you that this would be illegal and unethical... I assure you that any soldier caught taking "war trophies" are dealt with harshly by the military leadership...
And say that some soldiers did, as the AP story in question stated, go souvenir hunting. It's quite possibly that they were admonished and those souvenirs taken away if their superiors found out about it.
Look, you guys have pretty much convinced me that because of our war with the libs here that you have to be vigilant and consider the possible ramifications of every action, and that playing it straight isn't good enough anymore. It goes against my nature because I figure if you do right and tell the truth and play it straight, that ought to be good enough, but I realize the sad reality today is that it isn't because, again, we're in a war here just like our troops are over there.
And I have never once said that the Boston Globe wasn't a liberally-biased newspaper. It is, horribly. BTW, the columnist I mentioned earlier in the thread whose name escaped me who used to write for them and who made my blood pressure go to about 750/500 every time I read his drivel was David Nyhan.
My mindset in my responses to this thread, again, has been based strictly on my professional judgment whether the use of this photograph and the rewriting of the caption could pass muster.
But let me toss this out ... I did the front page in my newspaper today. I used a photograph of a U.S. soldier posing with his rifle in front of a large mural of Saddam Hussein (with one of his teeth blacked out) while a fellow soldier is snapping a photo of him with a camera. I thought it was a cute image. I mean, you can only run so many photos of people shooting or dead people or POWS or people looting stores or people tearing down Saddam statues or rubble in Baghdad. We've won the war, I thought a little bit of levity wasn't out of line. Does anyone out there think that presenting an image of U.S. soldiers in that fashion WAS out of line or DID paint them in a bad light?
When our soldiers get through democraticizing Iraq, maybe we could send them to Boston and Chicago to liberate those people. And just maybe, we could set those micks free to live in the land of the free and the home of the brave. And, if, in the process, I see a soldier pause and have a cigarette in the halls of Camelot, I just hope that it won't be to late for him to get an American cigatette.
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