Reporter, Who Quit Over Alleged Fake Iraq Story, Found Dead

Bloomberg no url | 10/6/3

[NativeNewYorker]

Oct. 6 (Bloomberg) -- James Forlong, a Sky News reporter who quit amid accusations that he faked a report during the war on Iraq, has been found dead, the British Broadcasting Corp. reported, citing local police.

Forlong, 44, who had worked for Sky News for 10 years, was found dead at his home in Hove, southern England by local police in the early hours of Saturday morning, the BBC said.

Police said the circumstances surrounding his death were not suspicious, the BBC reported.

Forlong resigned from the satellite television news channel three months ago over allegations that he faked a report he filed from the British nuclear submarine HMS Splendid during the Iraqi conflict, the broadcaster said.

A BBC documentary in July said Forlong's report, which showed the firing of a missile from the submarine, used archive footage to stage the launch.

Sky News suspended Forlong and his producer and started an investigation, the BBC said.

[weegee]

If'n it spreads will have to get our news from the comic books.

I wouldn't do that if'n I were you. Some recent FR threads:

Superheroes for saving Saddam?

SEC PROBING COMICS COMPANY (ILLEGAL $$$ FOR BILL & HILL?)

Local Cartoonist Has Hand in Franken's Right-Wing Roast (Used Harvard Aide to Prank Bob Jones U)

Justice League turns lefty?

Toward a Red Planet (Superman goes Communist)

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Not surprising since self-defence is illegal in the UK.

[G.Mason]

" I wouldn't do that if'n I were you. Some recent FR threads:"

It was a joke .......it was a joke!

Thanks for the urls ...... I think?

I'll check them out.

[Revolting cat!]

Tomorrow's headline today:

Forlong Not For Long!

[Diddle E. Squat]

'Did Tom Lantos call?' bump

[weegee]

I get the gag, I'm just pointing out other examples of the liberal media's propaganda game.

[weegee]

By the way, cartoonist Art Spiegleman (pulitzer prize winning creator of Maus and editor/contributor of Raw and The New Yorker) has said that now that we are in the age of digital photography (and photo manipulation) photo journalism is no longer "proof" of an event and that "cartoon" accounts of an event are just as valid (he did a 2 page piece I believe for the New Yorker addressing this).

This was several years prior to this year's LA Times photo controversy:

This photo:

Is really a composite of these 2 photos:

[G.Mason]

I remember seeing that.

Nothing is sacred, and everything suspect.

Hard too keep from being wrapped in tin foil. ;)

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I guess he did kill himself.

Ok, I agree with you. Nothing to kill yourself over.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Given the circumstances, he could have faked his own death.... < /paranoia>

[archy]

Forlong could've, like, written a book about his fraud and cashed in.

He's next. I hear he's real despondent and depressed.

-archy-/-

[archy]

Forlong commits suicide

Jason Deans
Monday October 6, 2003

Forlong: spent 10 years at Sky News

Former Sky News reporter James Forlong has committed suicide at his home on the East Sussex coast.

[nuconvert]

How about, "The complex interweaving of energy, matter, and enlightened self interest run through the universe."
?

[nuconvert]

Is that your regular tag line? Or a coincidence?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Nah. They doesn't run though the universe. They are what the universe runs on.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

doesn't should be don't

[lainde]

ping

[G.Mason]

"Is that your regular tag line? Or a coincidence?"

I've been using it since they started using them.

Like? dislike?

[nuconvert]

(Lessons of life need not be fatal)

I thought your tag line was so appropriate
for this story. Wondered if it was a coincidence
or you chose it for this post.
Certainly works for this article.

[G.Mason]

'I thought your tag line was so appropriate for this story. Wondered if it was a coincidence or you chose it for this post. Certainly works for this article."

Thanks for the kind words.

It's comforting to know that there are some out here who read and understand the witten word.

I do not mean to be pompous, as many times I am not able to do so.