May 20, 2003

Can we have the real story?

OK, what is it about the integrity of our news reporters any more? I trusted the BBC when I shared John Kampfner's report that the Jessica Lynch rescue was staged. However, subsequent to that report and my report, John Kampfner was asked:

Is it your belief right now based upon your investigation that this rescue of Lynch was in any way a staged event and not real?

He answered "no."

The Americans had a legitimate right in getting Lynch out of the hospital in Nasiriya. They had no way of knowing what her fate was, whether she was being well or badly treated.

So, I guess when you made your original report, this was actually unconfirmed:

Witnesses told us that the special forces knew that the Iraqi military had fled a day before they swooped on the hospital.

Add that to the Jayson Blair fiasco or CNN's admission that firing demonstrations it had televised in a story about assualt weapons were deceptive and it paints a pretty bleak picture of the integrity of journalism. Soon, someone will be reporting that all the stories in the Weekly World News are entirely factual.

attribution: I began with InstaPundit

Posted by Tiger at May 20, 2003 05:27 PM | TrackBack
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