Jimmy Massey, the Marine with made-up war crimes, has been exposed and debunked. But the damage already's done, via a dozen-plus stories by the Associated Press, USA Today, the Washington Post, the Sacramento Bee and Rolling Stone.
Citizens stopping at the Gateway, rather than riding to the West, were the vanguard--the Post-Dispatch broke the story November 5th. New Yorkers know, courtesy of the NY Post. CNN fans got the news Monday morning. Even slaves to the Strib (far left) and the Seattle Times (moderate) were trusted with the truth. Oh yeah, word's filtered to a few in Georgia, Oklahoma and North Carolina, readers of "The Augusta Chronicle, The Tulsa World and the Charlotte Observer."
But that's about it. As documented by Michelle Malkin, Laer Pearce of Cheat Seeking Missiles and Christopher Fotos at NewsBusters.Org, most of the media hears no error, sees no bias and speaks no correction. Apparently, reporters reasoned readers of USA Today, the Washington Post, the Sacramento Bee, the Associated Press (and newspapers nationwide relying on AP's wire service) can't handle the truth.
In our looking glass world, imagined atrocities are news; "not guilty" is nothing. Among the lefty media, fact checking's only for victory. For the press, good news from Iraq, Iraqi Kurdistan (video) and Afghanistan -- or bad news from France -- is never fit to print.
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