The New Republic Can’t Confirm Weekly Standard Report Of Beauchamp Recant |
| Published: August 7, 2007, 4:37 pm |
| Tags: blogging, military, war, iraq, media criticism, internet news media, media, news, internet |
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This one is surely now to stack up as a case for the nation’s journalism schools. We ran this extensive post earlier about a report in The Weekly Standard that Scott Thomas Beauchamp had recanted his controversial articles written about the U.S. military in Iraq under a pen name. If you re-read it, you’ll note that we added our own journalistic “hedges” since we were commenting on a report based on an anonymous source and not confirmed elsewhere. But now The New Republic has essentially said it not only cannot confirm The Weekly Standard’s “scoop,” but its sources are seemingly throwing cold water on it. Here’s TNR’s statement: A STATEMENT ON SCOTT THOMAS BEAUCHAMP: We’ve talked to military personnel directly involved in the events that Scott Thomas Beauchamp described, and they corroborated his account as detailed in our statement. When we called Army spokesman Major Steven F. Lamb and asked about an anonymously sourced [ Full article ] |
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