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Dear Elizabeth: I Didn't Do It (Reuters put my name on a horribly slanted story)
Wall St. Journal ^ | Thursday, July 24, 2003 12:00 p.m. EDT | BY DEANNA WRENN

Posted on 07/24/2003 10:14:04 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines

Edited on 04/23/2004 12:05:43 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Jessica Lynch, the wounded Army private whose ordeal in Iraq was hyped into a media fiction of U.S. heroism, was set for an emotional homecoming on Tuesday. . . . Media critics say the TV cameras will not show the return of an injured soldier so much as a reality-TV drama co-produced by U.S. government propaganda and credulous reporters."


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: West Virginia
KEYWORDS: bias; deannawrenn; deceit; fabrication; jessicalynch; liberallies; lynch; media; reuters
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The liberal media strikes again.
1 posted on 07/24/2003 10:14:05 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Maybe Katie Couric should go to work for Reuters.
2 posted on 07/24/2003 10:14:40 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
It is impossible to believe anything from the media.
3 posted on 07/24/2003 10:18:51 AM PDT by xzins
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
I guess we know where Jason Blair got a new job.
4 posted on 07/24/2003 10:19:50 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave.)
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To: xzins
doesn't she have grounds for a lawsuit?
5 posted on 07/24/2003 10:20:22 AM PDT by Pikamax
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To: Behind Liberal Lines; Howlin; Mo1; Miss Marple; Timesink; hchutch
Look at this..
6 posted on 07/24/2003 10:22:18 AM PDT by Dog
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
I wonder how many reporters are flattered by Reuters or the AP asking to use their bylines, only to discover they were being used so that someone else could take potshots, slant the story in another direction or take political advantage over someone else?

After Jayson Blair and exposure of CNN's colluding with Iraq's regime and the multitude of complaints about the NY Times, perhaps more writers/reporters will continue exposoing these behind the scenes machinations.
7 posted on 07/24/2003 10:23:19 AM PDT by BlessedByLiberty (Respectfully submitted,)
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To: seamole; William McKinley; cyncooper; Peach
fyi..
8 posted on 07/24/2003 10:23:22 AM PDT by Dog
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To: Dog Gone; mhking
fyi..
9 posted on 07/24/2003 10:24:18 AM PDT by Dog
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To: Pikamax; P-Marlowe
doesn't she have grounds for a lawsuit?

I'm not a lawyer so I can't answer that.

Maybe since she gave permission to use her "byline" instead of her "story" she has no case.

10 posted on 07/24/2003 10:26:16 AM PDT by xzins
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To: Dog
I'm sure some of the emails came from FR.It was terrible piece.Reuters was wrong,deceptive,unethical and is forever on my "doubt" list.
12 posted on 07/24/2003 10:28:44 AM PDT by MEG33
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
FR broke this yesterday with an actual e-mail from the reporter to one of our Freepers (sorry, don't remember who).
13 posted on 07/24/2003 10:29:10 AM PDT by CaptRon
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To: Dog
I would like to make it abundantly clear that somebody at Reuters wrote the story, not me.

WOW !!

Has there been any comments from Reuters about being outing for reporting false stories?

15 posted on 07/24/2003 10:33:02 AM PDT by Mo1 (Please help Free Republic and Donate Now !!!)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
Three cheers for Deanna Wrenn. Rueters deserves unmitigated contempt. I fart in their general direction. I imagine they've done things like this for decades. It's just now that there is enough media competition to make them eat the tergivorate prose that they print on their fishwrap newspapers.
16 posted on 07/24/2003 10:33:18 AM PDT by .cnI redruM ("Yall can go to _ _ _ _, and I will go to Texas" - Davey Crockett)
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To: Pikamax
doesn't she have grounds for a lawsuit?

I would think so, especially since they didn't remove her name after she requested them to do so.

17 posted on 07/24/2003 10:45:48 AM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: Dog
Unbelievable.

Wait.....very believable.
18 posted on 07/24/2003 10:46:42 AM PDT by cyncooper
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
And to think that Will Rogers once said, "All I know is what I read in the newspaper"......
19 posted on 07/24/2003 10:48:23 AM PDT by tracer (/b>)
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To: Dark Wing
ping
20 posted on 07/24/2003 10:50:06 AM PDT by Thud
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