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Associated Press Apologizes for Its Coverage of the Irish Orphanage Story
Seasons of Grace ^ | June 20, 2014 | Kathy Schiffer

Posted on 06/21/2014 11:05:53 AM PDT by NYer

Edited on 06/21/2014 2:12:25 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Associated Press has issued an apology for its errant reporting regarding claims of a mass grave for children of unwed mothers on the grounds of Tuam Home, an Irish home for unwed mothers.

Since the disturbing story broke early this month regarding the Tuam Home for unwed mothers in Ireland, where 796 babies were purportedly “dumped into a septic tank”, the Patheos bloggers have been on the case.


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TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events; History; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: ap; bethanyhomes; ireland; orphanage
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1 posted on 06/21/2014 11:05:53 AM PDT by NYer
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To: Tax-chick; GregB; Berlin_Freeper; SumProVita; narses; bboop; SevenofNine; Ronaldus Magnus; tiki; ...

Ping


2 posted on 06/21/2014 11:06:12 AM PDT by NYer ("You are a puff of smoke that appears briefly and then disappears." James 4:14)
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To: NYer

AP should just issue an overall apology for all their sewage.


3 posted on 06/21/2014 11:08:52 AM PDT by boycott
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To: NYer

Who was the reporter responsible for this hoax?


4 posted on 06/21/2014 11:13:06 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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To: NYer
Irish Blogger Shane, (Lux Occulta) has carried out research indicating that the mortality rate in the home at Tuam was actually LOWER than much of the rest of the country, except in Dublin, where it was the same.

Between 1925 and 1937, 204 children died at the Home — an average of 17 per year. 17 deaths out of 200 children equals a mortality rate of8.5%. It is interesting to compare that with the rest of the country at the time. In 1933, the infant mortality rate in Dublin was 83 per thousand (ie. a mortality rate of 8.3%), in Cork it was 89 per thousand (8.9%), in Waterford it was 102 per thousand (10.2%) and in Limerick it was 132 per thousand (13.2%). (Source: Irish Press, 12th April, 1935).

These are very sad statistics indeed, but not surprising if you know the history of infant and child mortality in the era before anitbiotics (which would mean for the first 25+ years of the TGuam Children' Home existence.) Institutionalized populations, like orphanages, homeless shelters and the like, could have whole wards wiped out by influenza, TB, and gastroenteritis.

Also the historian Liam Logan (@limerick1914) who has done so much work in digging up the archives and sharing them, has discovered that the home never once left the hands of the County Council. In 1951, 10 years before it shut, the sisters were begging the board for a grant, saying that they were too ashamed to show councils part of the building which desperately needed renovations, the children were sleeping in attics in terrible conditions and the building were considered a fire risk. In a meeting in 1949, Senator Martin Quinn were told that the children were suffering as result of the condition of the building, to which he replied “I do not like these statements which receive such publicity”.


"First the verdict, then the evidence": motto, in this case, of Salon, Washington Post, New York Times, and yes, Fox News. And some others as well. They'll show up.

5 posted on 06/21/2014 11:23:40 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("Stop judging by mere appearances, but judge with righteous judgment." - (John 7:24))
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To: NYer

Seed planted. Mission accomplished.

It isn’t news. It’s propaganda.


6 posted on 06/21/2014 11:28:54 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: NYer

Seed planted. Mission accomplished.

It isn’t news. It’s propaganda.


7 posted on 06/21/2014 11:28:55 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

We told you so, yet you continued to spread the hateful lie.


8 posted on 06/21/2014 11:30:27 AM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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Cleverly worded BS that doesn’t come straight their purposeful fictional indictment of those no longer among us to explain reality.


9 posted on 06/21/2014 11:35:29 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: goodwithagun

Not sure I understand what you’re saying here.


10 posted on 06/21/2014 11:36:58 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: NYer
This isn't just an error on AP's part. It is evidence of a systemic bias, a willingness to report the worst about our moral institutions, without any regard for veracity, integrity, or objectivity.

Any news organization this incompetent is not merely bumbling and inept, it is downright malicious. It should be sued into oblivion.

11 posted on 06/21/2014 11:40:03 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Those who want to believe nuns are in the business of murdering children will simply declare this “fake but accurate” and insist it’s genuine evidence of Catholic evil.


12 posted on 06/21/2014 11:43:05 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Cynicism is a far greater spiritual danger than naivete." ~ Stephen Webb)
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To: Tax-chick
On one of these threads I admited that nuns kill babies and drink their blood. I think that ended that thread! :)
13 posted on 06/21/2014 11:53:06 AM PDT by defconw (LUTFA!)
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To: goodwithagun

Schadenfreude.


14 posted on 06/21/2014 12:09:25 PM PDT by Brian Kopp DPM
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To: NYer

Where are all the FR usual suspects offering their apologies for gleefully spreading this lie?


15 posted on 06/21/2014 12:10:30 PM PDT by Brian Kopp DPM
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To: NYer

Will posters here issue apologies for their anticatholic rants?

Not holding my breath


16 posted on 06/21/2014 12:13:36 PM PDT by stanne
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To: Brian Kopp DPM
Where are all the FR usual suspects offering their apologies for gleefully spreading this lie?

LOL - you expect people with the maturity of screeching chimpanzees to apologize?

17 posted on 06/21/2014 12:16:18 PM PDT by Hacksaw (I haven't taken the 30 silvers.)
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Associated Press has issued an apology for its errant reporting regarding claims of a mass grave for children of unwed mothers on the grounds of Tuam Home, an Irish home for unwed mothers.

OOOPS!

18 posted on 06/21/2014 12:17:35 PM PDT by Hacksaw (I haven't taken the 30 silvers.)
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To: NYer

Just when you thought Fox News and Salon could find something to agree on...


19 posted on 06/21/2014 12:21:00 PM PDT by Chaguito
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That’s alright, the anti-Catholic ghouls already had their Dumbocrat day and they’ll believe what they were told in the beginning without an ounce of critical thinking or research.


20 posted on 06/21/2014 12:28:07 PM PDT by tiki
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