Media Slowly Coming to Cover New Republic Beauchamp Retractions |
| Published: December 4, 2007, 12:56 pm |
| Tags: anti military bias, iraq, media bias debate, military, franklin foer, scott thomas beauchamp, media scandals, fake news, media matters, new york times, washington post |
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The TNR saga is slowly seeping into the media, with posts this morning at the Washington Post and the New York Times, in addition to last night's mention in the New York Observer. Not a single one of these outlets discusses the fact that Franklin Foer spent the better part of 13 pages alleging a military conspiracy spanning four bases in three countries involving dozens of soldiers, from privates to colonels. I guess they didn't want to discuss how nutty that explanation sounds. Nor did they mention that Foer and The New Republic refused to apologize to those soldiers in Iraq and Kuwait they accused of atrocities. Not a single one them acknowledges that Foer was being deceptive when he claimed back in July "the article was rigorously edited and fact-checked before it was published." Nor did they mention that both of the author's prior stories made statements--at least one unequivocally false--that should have made them doubt his veracity from the beginning. Even Media [ Full article ] |
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