She ends the post with a short round up of recent fake media stories.
Sy Hersh's fudge
AP: The hearings that hadn't started yet
AP and the crowd that didn't boo
Mitch Albom wasn't there
CBS: Rathergate, Obitgate
New Republic: Stephen Glass made it up
USA Today: Jack Kelley made it up
Boston Globe: Fake GI rape photos
Boston Globe again: Patricia Smith made it up; Mike Barnicle made it up
NYT: Jayson Blair wasn't there
WaPo: Janet Cooke wasn't there
And more:
LATimes: The Local Liberty blog points to another possible Jayson Blair in Los Angeles.
LATimes again: Robert Scheer made it up
Let's not forget the Mirror's fake Iraq Pictures
And if that isn't enough to convice you MSM have a credibility problem, Reuters admits it has "terrible quality problems" and the BBC admits its reports are 'littered with errors'.
The leaked e-mails sent by Hugh Berlyn, an assistant editor of BBC News Online, show that despite the furore surrounding the Gilligan report, dozens of "unvetted" stories appear on the internet every day. The result is a string of stories that are, at best, littered with errors and, at worst, inaccurate and potentially libellous.
The Telegraph published that last July and things have not changed at the BBC since. Recently veteran world affairs editor John Simpson was caught lying about Iraq casualty figures. The BBC were forced to print a "correction".
Those that don't read blogs are probably blissfully unaware of the media faking it.
New York Times admits it lied in NSA story.
Search Google using Reutergate - there's too many links to post here.
Lebanon: Journalist admits bodies dug up to stage photos. More here, here and here. Video here.
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