Posted on 09/23/2010 9:36:38 AM PDT by kristinn
The AOL-owned site Daily Finance this morning retracted a passage in an article that falsely stated Free Republic hosted child pornography.
The article was about reporter John Cook leaving Yahoo News to return to Gawker. Included in Cook's reasons for leaving, according to Daily Finance reporter Jeff Bercovici, was that Yahoo would not allow him to write about Free Republic "hosting child pornography." The Salon.com article that was linked to support that claim actually stated that Free Republic did not host child pornography.
The offending Daily Finance passage now reads:
"... On similar grounds, he was prohibited from writing about the conservative website Free Republic being used to promote child pornography*..."
A correction added to the end of the article states:
CORRECTION: Originally, this story said Free Republic was hosting child pornography. According to the Salon article that I linked to, Free Republic was not hosting it but being used to direct readers to an outside site that hosted it."
Link to article exposing AOL's libel of FR posted last night.
Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post, who picked up the Daily Finance story last night, posted a clarification this morning. A request for a correction has been made to Nicholas Carlson at the Business Insider who also repeated the false statement by the AOL's Daily Finance.
It has been creeping up. Rant away.
Exactly. This will be repeated just to smear conservatives.
It’s about time for another one. Some of the photos are also, imho, crossing or close to crossing the line.
“Twenty Mil is about what they owe each of us associated with this site as they are accusing/associating us individually with child pornography as well, and I want my share of that anus orifice that lied about us.”
No kidding.
Each and every member of FR was slandered with the notion that we are ALL involved with child porn by assoiciation.
Class action suit anybody?
Actually, You should have first gone all “Dan Ackyoyd” on me...
“Responsibility2nd, you ignorant slut.”
(I swear those skits were and still are timeless!)
I've been around her a while and "back in the day" there was never a profanity - not a one, because the first freepers were avid for thought out and well expressed postings.
We've come a ling way, baby.
Exactly. If anything, their "retraction" makes it sound equally as bad, if not worse than the original slander!
What impact will this ruling have on our “Gun Porn” and “War Porn” threads? Though, come to think of it, I haven’t seen either one in a while now ...
Yes, after reading this yesterday and as a member of FR i had extremely bad nightmares last night and woke up with excruciating pain in both my back, neck, and ass.
I am terribly afraid of going to sleep tonight over all of this.
I am afraid of the nightmares and can't function in my job afterwards.
Child porn is WRONG and AOL(who has stole hundreds if not thousands from me) is ACCUSING me of being an accomplice to heinous crime?
I'm really pissed of.
Jim Rob, tell us how AOL can help me handle and get over this horrible dilemma.
This is starting to sound like the Rush Limbaugh/Rams business where something false is posted on Wikipedia and then the media keeps repeating the lie and only quietly clarifying later that the lie is untrue.
If this takes off like wildfire in the MSM, this will be the way they report it.
Plus take their domain name.
-PJ
posted by Red Steel
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2594578/posts?page=60#60
http://www.freerepublic.com/~mantratx/
How did he know where the offending sites were? Why isn't he being investigated and charged with distributing child pornography?
This sounds like the "Bernie Ward" defense that he was only looking and distributing child pornography because he was writing a book. Ward is currently serving a 7-year prison term for distributing child pornography.
-PJ
How would he have links to Kiddie Porn.This is sick.
Really? I see things like “ass” and such, and see B*stard and Sh*t occasionally, but I never see the words explicitly spelled out, expecially not the “F” word and “C” word.
Michael Scott: Yes. It is true. I, Michael Scott, am signing up with an online dating service. Thousands of people have done it, and I am going to do it. I need a username, and... I have a great one. “Little Kid Lover”. That way people will know exactly where my priorities are at.
We can’t just let this one go Kristinn.
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