[Diogenesis]

Is there a FReeper who can organize a FReep of this vicious deliberately-misleading inaccuracy?

[Diogenesis]

BUMP to FReep a fabricating "newspaper" that made up "NEWS"
to attack US and Coalition heroes.

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[Little Bill]

HowieCarr.org, is the site.

[trebb]

Put Rush on it...

[StriperSniper]

and helped themselves to souvenirs."

However, there is no evidence of the Boston Globe's claim.

There is if they watched FoxNews, out troops were talking about taking ashtrays and the like. I agree that the spin is uncalled for, but it just makes them more wrong.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

He had a cigarette?!!! GOOD GOD!

[snippy_about_it]

Ping on over here.

[leadpenny]

I agree it is slanted and misleading but, is it legal for the BG to do this? There must be some kind of contract between AP and the BG that spells out what they can and cannot do with the pics they publish.

[Magnolia]

Good grief. After the hell these men have been through, all the PC crowd can find to criticize is one of our soldiers having a smoke....and in a PALACE of all places.

[SB00]

The Globe is as lefty a newspaper as they come.

[JEC]

Please ask me again why I cannot stand those lying, bleeding heart liberals. There is so much disinformation against those who are volunteering to save our lives at the possible cost of theirs that is brought on by the liberal press. We should be more than grateful to the service men and woman for what they have given us in the present and the past.

[areafiftyone]

I think it was not only the Boston Globe who said that. The New York Daily News said that yesterday too.

[Lady Eileen]

bump

[freekitty]

Why listen to stupid?

[GB]

I am a journalist. To be specific, my job in journalism is designing pages, writing headlines and writing photo captions.

I've also been a committed conservative since age 10, going on 35 years now.

I say this to establish my credentials to speak here ... and to tell you that you are WAY out in the ozone on this.

First off, the AP includes a recommended caption on every photo. A newspaper is under no obligation or requirement ... repeat, NO obligation or requirement ... to use that caption. Most of them are poorly written because they are written by the photographers themselves and not by writers. I have "winged" it and written my own captions based on my view of the photo hundreds if not thousands of times in my nearly 25 years in the business.

Quite frankly, I might very well have used the cigarette line myself because it was a little more compelling. I placed a picture of two Brits lighting up in the paper a few days ago because it was a cool photo ... one of the Brits was a tank driver and he was sitting up in the entrance to the tank and lighting up for a colleague who was standing on the side of the tank. They looked supremely confident like it was just another day at the office and it was a compelling photo, and I didn't worry about any anti-smoking types calling to complain.

Secondly, the thing about the soldiers going through the palace for souvenirs ... in other words, looting, although that is kind of a perjorative term ... was not a falsehood, it was most definitely mentioned in the story that this photo (which I saw when going through the available photos that night) and several others accompanied, because I personally read every word of that story, wrote a headline for it (mine was something on the order of "U.S. troops make themselves at home in Saddam's palace") and placed it in my newspaper. And in hindsight, I probably should've used a pullout paragraph or something in boldface about them taking souvenirs because that is also cool and IMHO is no big deal. I mean, like victorious soldiers haven't helped themselves to the spoils of war for hundreds of year. A guy who lived down the street from me when I was a kid had a dagger he took off a German he killed in World War II and he was quite proud of it, and I always beheld it with awe.

So if our guys did help themselves to some of Saddam's toys ... again, so what? Big fat hairy deal! It's no insult to our guys.

Bottom line, I certainly have no use for the Boston Globe in a lot of ways, and I don't deny that there is bias in the media (I can curl your hair with stories of what it's been like trying to work in the trade as a conservative for a quarter-century), but don't go crazy and start seeing devious, eeeeeeevillll conspiracies in each and every thing and call for Freeping when you have no idea of what you're talking about.

[Babu]

The Boston Glob and the New York Slimes are owned by the same outfit.

You read an American-hating rag and you are surprised by American-hating news???

[pointsal]

golly sakes! ping to top

[Lancey Howard]

Hey, when you've seen one America-hating Democrat-controlled newspaper, you've seen them all. Around here, we have the Philadelphia Inquirer.

[Risa]

>>Is there a FReeper who can organize a FReep of this vicious deliberately-misleading inaccuracy?<<

I am not surprised at their duplicity. The Boston Globe is not a good medium for unbiased news, and a lot of the writing is horrendous.

I wonder if we could expect more from the news media of a state which elects, over and over again, that immoral, alcohol-soddened buffoon, Ted Kennedy.

A freep is a great idea.

risa

[thunders]

Ok, I didn't read yesterday's Globe...But this is sickening! I don't know all of the names of the people in the Boston area, but this should be sent to the group...I'm in between classes right now, so kind of busy... Surely someone will have an idea of what can be done...sigh...I'm disgusted....