Boston Globe ran FAKE Rape photos from.... Nation of Islam

Boston Herald ^ | 5/13/04 | Staff

[abu afak]

Globe caught with pants down: Paper duped into running porn photos By Herald staff Thursday, May 13, 2004

The Boston Globe was reeling yesterday after graphic photos of alleged sexual abuse of Iraqi women by U.S. soldiers turned out to be staged shots from a hardcore porn Web site.

``This photo should not have appeared in the Globe,'' editor Martin Baron said in a statement. ``First, images portrayed in the photo were overly graphic. Second, as the story clearly pointed out, those images were never authenticated as photos of prisoner abuse. There was a lapse in judgment and procedures, and we apologize for it.''

The ``lapse'' came after City Councilor Chuck Turner and perennial pot-stirrer Sadiki Kambon called a press conference in the wake of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal to display more purported abuse photos. Turner claimed they came from ``a very legitimate person'' but admitted they hadn't been authenticated. Kambon said he got them from a representative of the Nation of Islam. Neither Turner nor Kambon returned calls.

But yesterday, WorldNetDaily.com reported the pictures - which show hard-core sex acts and genitalia - came from a pornographic site.

The Globe ran a picture of Turner and Kambon displaying the images. In a large shot in the paper's early editions, pornographic details are clearly visible. In later editions, the photograph was reduced, making the images slightly more obscure. A number of news outlets - including the Herald and The Associated Press - attended the conference but did not run a story after determining the photos were highly suspicious.

The issue reportedly was the subject of much Globe newsroom debate. According to WorldNetDaily, Globe reporter Donovan Slack did not approve of the photos being published but they were OK'd by ``three Boston Globe editors.''

Her story did note the pictures ``bear no characteristics that would prove the men are US soldiers or that the women are Iraqis.''

Slack told the Herald she had ``no comment,'' then hung up. But she is quoted on the Web site saying she was ``surprised'' the Globe decided to run the story.

``It's insane,'' Slack said. ``Can you imagine getting this with your cup of coffee in the morning? Somehow it got through all our checks. Our publisher's not having a very good day today.''

Later she quips, ``I'll be working at Penthouse soon!'' The president of the Globe's parent New York Times reportedly is ``furious.''

http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=27679

[Izzy Dunne]

Duped by Louis Ferret-can.

[Mike K]

Thomas Oliphaunt writes for the Globe - the pics are just more pornography, and their readers are used to it.

[Redbob]

"Boston Globe gets it wrong!"

Don't bother putting THIS in "Breaking News."

[King Prout]

good to know the mediots can actually be caught to some useful effect.

[johnfrink]

I was surprised as anyone to hear that Ron Jeremy is a member of our armed forces.

[Kenton]

Well, since the Boston Post is playing it so fast and loose, it would seem to be a wonderful opportunity for other extremist groups to get their weird theories published.

I wonder if they'd be willing to do a piece about black men raping white women if they got some pics from the Ku Klux Klan, or Jews making matzoh out of the bones of Christian babies based on reports from the White Aryan Resistance?

Well, maybe the one slandering the Jews would get past them...

[anniegetyourgun]

"The president of the Globe's parent New York Times reportedly is ``furious.''

LOL! This, after the guy at the LATimes claims Fox is perpetrates propaganda! The mainstream media - see how far she's fallen. She is a whore.

[lilylangtree]

Hohohoho, heheheheh and hahahaha. Thanks. This news made my day.

[spodefly]

The president of the Globe's parent New York Times reportedly is ``furious.''

Because they got caught.

[tdadams]

I'd like to know which editor had to sheepishly admit he'd seen those photos before.

[MediaMole]

We all know Ron Jeremy works for the other side...

[superdad]

The New York Times was only furious because they thought it would be their scoop.

[cricket]

"Her story did note the pictures ``bear no characteristics that would prove the men are US soldiers or that the women are Iraqis.'' "

. . .but nonetheless, they chose to run them anyway.

Just too irresistable to miss an opportunity to slime our Military even further. . .and besides, they can always make a retraction; post damage. . .

Totally disgusting.

[cricket]

Good one. . .

[b4its2late]

Ole fat Ted probably called and demanded that the Globe show these atrocities to the good people of Massachusetts.......

[cricket]

p.s. This deserves to be past on to the Globe; they should love it.

[prion]

But yesterday, WorldNetDaily.com reported the pictures - which show hard-core sex acts and genitalia - came from a porngraphic site.

Hm. I wish the site would come forward. Seems to me they have a lucrative case of copyright infringement against somebody here.

[Havoc]

In so much of a hurry to slam a republican administration, they got caught with their pants down. If the pics had been rated G, what they did would still be pornographic. But they don't see it that way I'm sure.

[StonyBurk]

anti-Bush bias--Hate America first attitude affects
the nations press corps as much as a lazy mans refusal
to check and verify their sources before they publish
something as factual. Like bob seegar says in his song
"Against the wind" --"deadlines and committments--what
to take out-what to leave in. . . "