Library of Congress to archive Debka.com's daily war updates

debka.com ^ | April 18, 2003 | debka.com

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The United States Library of Congress has meanwhile honored DEBKAfile with the following request:

?The United States Library of Congress preserves the Nation?s cultural artifacts and provides enduring access to them. The Library?s traditional functions, acquiring, cataloging, preserving and serving collection materials of historical importance to the Congress and to the American people to foster education and scholarship, extend to digital materials, including websites.

The Library has selected your site for inclusion in the historic collection of the 2003 War on Iraq Internet materials. The Library requests your permission to collect your website. Our plan is to engage the Internet Archive, on behalf of the Library of Congress, to collect content from your website at regular intervals during the war. The Library will make this collection available to researchers onsite at Library facilities. The Library also wishes to make the collection available to offsite researchers by hosting the collection on the Library?s public access website. The Library hopes that you share its vision of preserving Web materials about the War and permitting researchers from across the world to access them.?

Needless to say, DEBKAfile has acceded to this request.

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I know there was some discussion prior to the start of the war concerning this website's reliability. This request by the Library of Congress for the website's daily war diary gives more credibility to its newsgathering and reporting skills. Not all news outlets gets everything right 100% of the time, and we must know that is also the case with Debra.com. However, to ask permission to archive their work like this is truly an honor for this new website and I congratulate them on a job well done.

[Semper Paratus]

OK, but the Library of Congress also archives all the papers of President Clinton.

[ken5050]

BREAKING NEWS: Debka nominated for this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction

[Libertarianize the GOP]

http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/bump-list

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Cute and funny. I didn't say they were always right, but I would be proud to know that the Library of Congress even knew that my website existed. After all, I am sure they archive CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, ETC. and we know they don't get it right all the time either.

[Rain-maker]

...to be filed under children's comics.

[dirtboy]

This request by the Library of Congress for the website's daily war diary gives more credibility to its newsgathering and reporting skills.

Nice try. Ever since we caught Debka lying about the weather in Afghanistan, something easily checked on the Weather Channel website, they've had a special place in our hearts here on FR. Right next to the urinal cake...

[FairOpinion]

"OK, but the Library of Congress also archives all the papers of President Clinton. "

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Don't you think Debka is far more believable, than Pinocchio Clinton?

[dirtboy]

Don't you think Debka is far more believable, than Pinocchio Clinton?

About the same, both have the same propensity to lie even when the truth works just as well or better.

[FairOpinion]

I have been following Debka for the past couple of years.
It was just something I saw posted on a board, so I had an open mind however it would turn out.

Making allowences that intell type info tends to be fuzzy and sometimes unreliable, I found that they have been quite accurate about a lot of things, reporting them literally months before it hit the main media. Some stuff never hits the main media, but that doesn't mean it wasn't true.

Much of their analysis makes a lot of sense too.

I always check Debka, along with other sites, for the latest news & info.

[antaresequity]

The Onion has been archived too /sarc

[No Truce With Kings]

Ah. . . .

I beleive that the LOC also archives supermarket tabloids, too.

Something about completeness rather than accuracy. . .

[dirtboy]

Making allowences that intell type info tends to be fuzzy and sometimes unreliable, I found that they have been quite accurate about a lot of things,

Such as? Most of the times they are correct, it is with what I call big duh stories - they'll claim that the latest suicide bombing in Israel was linked to Hamas, for example. But those stories are dwarfed by their BS - lies about weather in Afghanistan, claims that China is moving tens of thousands of troops into Afghanistan through a region that five minutes of research reveals to be under the control of the Northern Alliance - and who can forget Debka's scoop that Russia was going to send 500,000 troops into Kabul? Any minor stories that Debka gets right are utterly buried by the manure they put out.

[RightWhale]

This request by the Library of Congress for the website's daily war diary gives more credibility to its newsgathering and reporting skills.

Is that you, Bagdad Bob?

[RANGERAIRBORNE]

You nailed it- I wish I could add to your post, but you got it right the first time.

DEBKA is utterly worthless - and when it comes to archiving their stuff, remember Sturgeon's Law:

"90% of EVERYTHING is crap!"

[ChadGore]

Re: Not all news outlets gets everything right 100%

Debka is a steaming heap of rumor mongering predictions with about as much credibility as Ms. Cleo.

Please, never quote debka as a reliable source of any information in this forum of fine conservative disscorse.

[gcruse]

The Lybarry of Congress, eh?

Debka would be in the same section as the
Journal of Irreproducible Results, I 'magine.