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2006-03-04 Iraq

WaPo source for 1,300 dead figure may be fake

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Posted by Dan Darling 2006-03-04 01:23|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07] Top

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It's like the NYT's are writing the stories for the AP and the Washington Post these days.

Posted by macofromoc 2006-03-04 01:55|| 2006-03-04 01:55|| Front Page Top

#2 I believe the story may have been sourced from a new news organization, FBU.

Posted by Perfessor 2006-03-04 07:27|| 2006-03-04 07:27|| Front Page Top

#3 FBU?

Posted by Theter Flineck1589 2006-03-04 08:56|| 2006-03-04 08:56|| Front Page Top

#4 Was the WAPO's "field reporter" a leftover Baathist intelligence agent assigned to the WAPO prewar? Much like Time's Vietnam office was staffed by Vietcong and NVA intelligence. The press is naive and destructive.

Posted by ed 2006-03-04 09:24|| 2006-03-04 09:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Fake But Unaccurate, perhaps?

Posted by trailing wife 2006-03-04 09:43|| 2006-03-04 09:43|| Front Page Top

#6 Come on, guys, let's not be too hard on the WaPo. Surely, somewhere on the planet there are 1,300 dead people. They may not all be in Iraq, but that's just quibbling over the geographic distribution. Are we going to bash them for one teensy factual error in their story? This *is* the mainstream media after all. If you want facts, go to an encyclopedia. Or Popular Mechanics.

What I want to know from the WaPo is what ever happened to Bat Boy?

Posted by SteveS 2006-03-04 10:32|| 2006-03-04 10:32|| Front Page Top

#7 "...very confident in the validity of the story, and in the soundness of the sources."

Ray Nagin?

Posted by DepotGuy 2006-03-04 10:37|| 2006-03-04 10:37|| Front Page Top

#8 "...very confident in the validity of the story, and in the soundness of the sources."

Isn't that what Rather said?

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2006-03-04 10:57|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-03-04 10:57|| Front Page Top

#9 I recall that OP called this a couple of days back.

Posted by 6 2006-03-04 12:23|| 2006-03-04 12:23|| Front Page Top

#10 Sorry, I was tired. FBA. Fake But Accurate.

Posted by Perfessor 2006-03-04 15:28|| 2006-03-04 15:28|| Front Page Top

#11 I feel much better, Perfesser. 'Cause unaccurate isn't a word, and that caused me pain. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2006-03-04 17:41|| 2006-03-04 17:41|| Front Page Top

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