December 21, 2006
The Search For Jamil Hussein Expands
Michelle Malkin has an extensive update on the widening search for the most elusive mainstream media source in Iraq. She includes this "map of the wide variety of Baghdad locations from which "Captain Jamil Hussein" had reported incidents of violence to the AP."
Eason Jordan can't find him either. (The lead reported by Armed Liberal on Dec.18 turned into a dead end.) Rather than quoting more, I'll just let you follow the link.
Related: Flopping Aces suspects the Associated Press has been quietly rewriting the story.
Previous SDA posts on the "six burning Sunnis" story.
Dec. 21 UPDATE - "That makes at least five people, organizations, or teams who thus far have been unable to confirm the existence of a Captain Jamil Hussein at Yarmouk. The other four are CPATT, the Iraqi Ministry of Interior (MOI), Marc Danzinger's team, and Eason Jordan's team."
That's six actually. The Associated Press seems unable to produce him, either.
The Anchoress takes exception to being misrepresented and raises a suspicion a good many of us have already come to, "But as a lifelong avid consumer of news and news-by-products, my own opinion (and I suspect I am not alone) is that the press’ embrasure of “fake but accurate” truthiness and “prove-the-negative” accusation as the acceptable new journalistic standards is equally unprecedented.
Or, maybe not. Maybe the press has always operated exactly as it operates today, and we simply never noticed before."
Posted by Kate at December 21, 2006 12:00 AMthis one speaks for itself
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2006/12/21/airport-escape-061221.html
THE AP WILL NEVER APOLOGIZE RE "JAMIL HUSSEIN"
–They will simply DROP the story, as when they dropped Qana, the Red Cross bus ambulance “bombings”, Israeli attacks on UNIFIL, or Paliwood
– Stunningly, after proof appeared that Saddam had 500 tons of yellowcake Uranium Oxide in storage when he was invaded (enough for 148 nuclear bombs), the MSM simply DROPPED the “Iraq Had No WMD” stories, with no corrections, no clarifications, apologies, nothing
– They are now hammering on the “We’re Losing” theme
– When they drop a particular story, that means you WON – it’s all you get
– I have not seen them admit to any significant falsehood, no matter how egregious
– E.G., Waiting for the MSM retract their inverted reporting of the US victory in the Vietnam Tet offensive, which they still describe as a defeat
– (Tet 1968, was key because the US and South Vietnam DESTROYED the Viet Cong, leaving the war to the invading regular North Vietnam army. Thereafter, there were no significant populist socialist Vietnamese “resistance freedom fighters” left – only millions of Communist invaders, dying rapidly as the US and South Vietnamese won every significant battle)
– No one nailed the MSM hard enough, then or now, and they continue simplistically falsifying Vietnam as a defeat, with Tet as a “turning point”
Footnote: Ever wonder what happened to MSM catastrophizing about Acid Rain? Same story: proven false, dropped