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Posted in Media Myths, Journalists & Sources, Leads and Tips, News Media, Pundits, Terresa Monroe-Hamilton, Military on Aug 9th, 2007
Rocket’s Brain Trust brought a couple of interesting articles to our attention this week.
The following is a riveting commentary in the WSJ that Flopping Aces linked to. It concerns a former Romanian “spy” who sheds a great deal of light on the former Soviet Union, Saddam Hussein and Gadhafi and what is going […]
Posted in Media Myths, Journalists & Sources, Leads and Tips, News Media, Pundits, Military, Bob Owens on Aug 9th, 2007
Cross-posted at Confederate Yankee:
Exactly one week ago today on August 2nd, the editors of the magazine The New Republic posted A Statement on Scott Thomas Beauchamp, in which they claimed:
All of Beauchamp’s essays were fact-checked before publication. We checked the plausibility of details with experts, contacted a corroborating witness, and pressed […]
Posted in Media Myths, Journalists & Sources, Leads and Tips, News Media, Pundits, Military, Rusty Shackleford on Aug 9th, 2007
Cross-posted at The Jawa Report:
The Taliban claim that 200-300 civilians gathered at a market are killed in a NATO bombing. NATO investigated the claim and found that zero civilians were being treated at the nearest hospitals. I thought we had put this to rest, but the massacre narrative just keeps going.
Notice that this IWPR report […]
Posted in Media Myths, Journalists & Sources, Leads and Tips, News Media, Photography, Pundits, Military, Rusty Shackleford on Aug 9th, 2007
Cross-posted at The Jawa Report:
The DOD today released a video taken by insurgents who were later captured. The nine minute video shows at least two rocket attacks against U.S. positions. One of those rocket attacks, on July 11th, killed a U.S. soldier.
What’s so odd is that the second set of rockets appear to be U.S. […]
Posted in Media Myths, Journalists & Sources, Leads and Tips, News Media, Photography, Pundits, Military, Bob Owens on Aug 9th, 2007
Cross-posted at Confederate Yankee:
Fox News is running a story this morning that shows still photos from a captured insurgent video.
The story claims:
Dramatic video produced by Iraqi insurgents and captured in a raid earlier this week by U.S. troops clearly shows a battery of sophisticated Iranian-made rocket launchers firing on American positions east of Baghdad, Pentagon […]
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