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Editor sacked over 'hoax' photos (Fake Torture Photos, ones today possibly related to 2004 hoax?)
BBC ^
| 14 May, 2004
Posted on 05/15/2009 10:26:00 AM PDT by mnehring
Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan has been sacked after the newspaper conceded photos of British soldiers abusing an Iraqi were fake.
In a statement the Mirror said it had fallen victim to a "calculated and malicious hoax" and that it would be "inappropriate" for Morgan to continue.
The Queen's Lancashire Regiment (QLR) said the Mirror had endangered British troops by running the pictures.
Roger Goodman, of the QLR, said the regiment now felt "vindicated".
Mr Goodman added: "It is just a great pity it has taken so long... and that so much damage has been done in the meantime."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsvote.bbc.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: breakingnews2004; fake; fired; hoax; medialies; piersmorgan; torture; uktroops
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The photos that Piers Morgan faked look eerily similar to the ones that are surfacing today.
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posted on
05/15/2009 10:26:00 AM PDT
by
mnehring
One of the photos Piers Morgan had faked.
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posted on
05/15/2009 10:27:10 AM PDT
by
mnehring
To: mnehring
...don’t believe any of it. Distrust and verify.
To: mnehring
The MSM is arrogant and out of control. They are heading for a major crackup very soon.
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posted on
05/15/2009 10:28:12 AM PDT
by
Erik Latranyi
(Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
To: mnehring
are the fake ones with the bedsheets in a lovely floral? lol.
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posted on
05/15/2009 10:28:36 AM PDT
by
GOP Poet
To: mnehring
The editor probably used the Dan Rather, “fake, but accurate” defense.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
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posted on
05/15/2009 10:29:38 AM PDT
by
Mr. Jazzy
(No greater friend, no worse enemy -The United States Marine Corps.)
To: mnehring
Come on...if a gun’s in your face and you can’t see it ...is it torture??
‘Cause then Obama tortured the pirates before they died...
(/s, rhetorical)
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posted on
05/15/2009 10:30:30 AM PDT
by
Voter62vb
To: mnehring
Piers Morgan was one of the judges in ‘Britian’s Got Talent’ during the Susan Boyle episode.
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posted on
05/15/2009 10:31:32 AM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(Obama. Clear and Pres__ent Danger.)
To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
He was also the winner of the US Celebrity Apprentice last year.. real jerk..
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posted on
05/15/2009 10:32:02 AM PDT
by
mnehring
To: Mr. Jazzy
Yeehaaaaa,,,he did get his ass served on a platter.
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posted on
05/15/2009 10:32:07 AM PDT
by
Concho
( No Birth Certificate-No Census!)
To: Voter62vb
Anyone could have gotten an airsoft version of the army weapon and staged that photo.
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posted on
05/15/2009 10:32:25 AM PDT
by
Armedanddangerous
( I think you're so full of inconsolable rage you don't care who you hurt)
To: mnehring
Yep. I had forgotten about that. I only watched one episode.
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posted on
05/15/2009 10:33:17 AM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(Obama. Clear and Pres__ent Danger.)
To: mnehring
The Mirror is a lefty tabloid.
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posted on
05/15/2009 10:33:51 AM PDT
by
expatpat
To: mnehring
To: mnehring
Did Morgan fake the photos himself or was he duped into printing fake photos?
Also, isn't the same Piers Morgan who won the first Celebrity Apprentice, and is currently judging the Britain's Got Talent show with Susan Boyle?
-PJ
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posted on
05/15/2009 10:34:55 AM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(This just in... Voting Republican is a Terrorist act!)
To: mnehring; All
This article is from May 14, 2004 - 5 years ago!!!!
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posted on
05/15/2009 10:36:35 AM PDT
by
2nd amendment mama
( www.2asisters.org | Self defense is a basic human right!)
To: Political Junkie Too
1. I understood he hired someone to fake them
2. Same guy.
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posted on
05/15/2009 10:36:57 AM PDT
by
mnehring
To: Armedanddangerous
"Anyone could have gotten an airsoft version of the army weapon and staged that photo." Or so the leftists thought. The reality is that no grunt in the Sandbox has lilly white "office skin."
The pale hands gave away the hoax attempt.
By the way, there was no abuse or torture. That there supposedly was torture and abuse was part of the Left's "big lie."
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posted on
05/15/2009 10:36:59 AM PDT
by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: 2nd amendment mama
Yep, I made a point to include that.. these are old photos that are being dug up.. debunked a long time ago..
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posted on
05/15/2009 10:37:27 AM PDT
by
mnehring
To: mnehring
If this MSM was in place in 1941, a few of us would be speaking German while the rest of us would be dead.
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posted on
05/15/2009 10:38:01 AM PDT
by
TMA62
(TMA62)
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