Milblogger Bill Roggio reports that the Associated Press and CNN ran stories about an insurgent attack based upon information received from local “stringers.” According to Roggio the stories were false, and the images representing the attacks were recycled from old film footage. Curious indeed.
All the news that’s fit to make up.
Marcus
Update: I almost threw up after reading this. (Warning, link may cause explosive apoplectic rage)
Update #2: More from Michelle Malkin on this.
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SCREW THESE GUYS!
So Tree Rat… you’re over in Iraq right now. How’s that civil war going we keep hearing about?
I’ll have to ask the AP. Apperantly we don’t know shit, and are sitting around here with our thumbs up our asses. I can say, without getting hammed by the man I think, that if a civil war really had broken out you’d know it. You have to question the validity of the statement when even the lefties can’t agree if it’s an accurate statement or not. When the do decide though maybe they should post the notice in the Iraqi papers so they can get up to speed.
Well, the Bed Wetters will need time to get their stories straight first—and that may take some time.
Staging the News…
The staging of stories in Iraq is not news to some of us. It is, however, becoming an isue both for the mainstream media and eventually advertisers. Many of the photographs shown and some of the video is nothing short…...