New Media on Old Media
Another stink at CBS. Allegations that Lara Logan used al-Qaeda footage from the Haifa Street fight without identifying it as such. Michelle has the roundup.
Meanwhile, Bob at Confederate Yankee wants your opinion on a bit of Jamil business.
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Posted by Jules Crittenden at 12:04 am on Wednesday, January 31, 2007
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January 31st, 2007 at 3:21 am
CBS. The home of truthiness. As long as it makes the U.S. look bad, as long as it furthers the preconceptions of those who perpetrate the news, what the hell, run with it. If it actually helps the enemy, hey, two birds and all that.
Do these people have any idea how they are, not merely mistrusted , but loathed by their former customers? I guess there are enough alphies out there to keep them as a viable concern.
January 31st, 2007 at 3:23 am
Oh, yeah … I think outing Jamil serves no purpose. As far as I’m concerned, he isn’t the story. The story is what the AP has done with him, and is willingly continuing to do. The story is much more than Jamil and his 1001 tall tales.
January 31st, 2007 at 4:11 am
Is CBS getting its news straight from the jihadis now?
CBS Uses Al Qaeda Video? Blackfive CBS Chief Foreign Correspondent in Baghdad, Lara Logan, first appeals for help in getting a key story about the battles around Haifa street put on the CBS Evening News instead of just published on
January 31st, 2007 at 4:16 am
The Case for Outing Jamil?
… As long as there’s any chance whatsoever that AP simply made up a name that by pure coincidence bore a similarity to a real person, I wouldn’t.
January 31st, 2007 at 10:16 am
Outing this person (if he does, indeed, exist) might get him killed, so I would vote against it. But I’d keep the option open as a hedge against AP ever using him as a source again.