For the Record

[fluff]

Dunno if any of you remember the background to this;

George Galloway MP (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3006166.stm)

[RhinofromWA]

Reporters are dumb....they shuold be penalized financialy for printing that story about the false documents......on teh Christian SCience Monitor.
The newspaper said two of the "oldest" documents - dated between 1992 and 1993 - were actually written within the past few months.

Though the Daily telegraph seems to be standing behind their story........via differnent sources :rolleyes: at that damn reporters...."uh, ours are legit...uh we would show you but we don't have actual copies. " :( freak'n reporters.
"Our story was based on a different set of documents found in a different set of circumstances. They were not supplied or given to us but unearthed by our reporter, David Blair, in the foreign ministry in Baghdad.

I wonder what clued them in that the documents were less than a year old instead of 10 or more years old? Printed on the back of a American Idol news release or something? :D

[$tinkle]

so what are we debating?
the extent to which they should be tortured?
i'll play.

[LordOpie]

Originally posted by $tinkle
so what are we debating?
the extent to which they should be tortured?
i'll play.
:D


The press should not be allowed to protect their sources when their sources are wrong. And the protection should be removed from a second newspaper when the same story is broken, but supposedly on a different source. Innocent until proven guilty?