What a strange night we have had in the previous thread.
Moved up the alreat level, but I am considering lowering it again (right Sulla?)
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The Left Wages A Jihad Against Atlas Shrugs --the left can't sit with the simple explanation that Pamela is a good journalist, with connections, who lives in New York, and that these things account for the fact that she gets the interviews she gets. No. |
All The News That's Fit To Fake
A fauxtography update - Powerline looks at the photos of the alleged Israeli strike on a Reuters news van.
And at LGF;
The International Committee of the Red Cross seems to have removed the high resolution image of ambulance 782 (supposedly struck by an Israeli missile) from their web site: Conflict in the Middle East: selection of photos.Is someone getting a little too close to the truth?
That someone is Zombietime.
Related discussion at Michelle Malkin.
Don't miss Mary Katharine Ham in Townhall, either;
The mainstream media’s response to the allegations from blogs has been more along the lines of Greg Mitchell’s, editor of Editor & Publisher, a trade magazine whose mission it is to cover “all aspects of the North American newspaper industry, including business, newsroom, advertising, circulation, marketing, technology, online and syndicates.”Mitchell’s response to accusations from bloggers—instead of answering the charges and refuting evidence—was to get very defensive, claim that “rightwing bloggers” were only attempting to smear photojournalists as a group, and then proceed to smear rightwing bloggers as a group for daring to point out the dishonesty of some photojournalists, and raise questions about how business is conducted in the Middle East.
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Instead of addressing concerns and refuting evidence, Mitchell calls bloggers a bunch of Grassy Knoll-ers intent on discrediting “the media as a whole.” This is not the way to win trust with your audience.
Mitchell then went on to discredit himself within the space of just a couple hours.
On Friday, the Confederate Yankee blog brought attention to a column Mitchell had written in 2003, in which he confessed to making up news as a young reporter. He had been sent out to do a story on Niagara Falls, and found himself unable to talk to tourists to get quotes. So, he sat on a bench and made the quotes up. He confessed his journalistic sin in the wake of the Jayson Blair scandal.
Many other blogs picked up on the 2003 column, suggesting that Mitchell might be sympathetic to faked news because he himself had been a faker.
Several hours after Confederate Yankee’s post went up, that blogger noticed the text of the 2003 article had been changed.
Posted by Kate at 10:06 AM | Comments (6)
Laugh And The World Laughs With You
Whine, and the world laughs at you ...
First, the Liberal Party killed Youth for Volpe.Last week, 'Liberals for Hezbollah' mysteriously went offline.
Now, this site's ISP has received a letter from the Liberal Party of Canada, full of imaginary legal violations (Slander? Has a HezboLiberal Broadway-style musical opened somewhere?) and veiled threats.
My ISP has been great and has given every indication that they would stick by me through this. But, I have decided to take down the website to save them further hassles.
If the Liberal Party ever wants to repair its reputation, it has to learn that it can't censor, threaten ordemand that Canadians 'shut up.' There are too many of us, and it is too easy for us to communicate these days for that sort of tactic to work anymore, in a free society.
If the Liberal Party doesn't like what it sees on blogs and on the Internet, it has to stop doing stuff so outrageous and offensive that someone would spend an entire day building a website just to mock it.
Until that happens, you are going to have to learn to live with it.
Sincerely,
HezboLiberal.com
When the New York Times used this tactic against Robert Cox a couple of years ago, the blogosphere responded by mirroring his spoof page a dozen times over.
You know, I'd hate to see that happen in this case. Lawyers letters cost money.
h/t Maz2
Update - Well, this didn't take long... apparently, a zip file is available for anyone who wants to duplicate the site.
Posted by Kate at 10:27 AM | Comments (54)
