When Does a Massacre Matter?

The Associated Press--and to a lesser extent, Reuters, and a small independent Iraqi news agency--ran stories claiming that 20 decapitated bodies had been found on or near the banks of the Tigris River in Um al-Abeed, a village near Salman Pak, southeast of Baghdad, with sectarian violence strongly implicated.

There were no named sources from this story from any media outlet, and the two anonymous Iraq police officers cited in the widely-carried ... Full Story »

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John Primm
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by John Primm - Oct. 1, 2008

I have read this site for some time, and in comparing it with many different sources, I have found it to be more accurate than not...however, the real story here is that the AP and the MSM still prefer to not deal with their mistakes, and especially have a profound bias against citizen journalists...instead of doing the kind of investigative journalism I was trained so long ago to do...but rather than try to investigate, the AP stays within its comfortable boundaries...Michael Yon has been in Iraq for years, and has proved his reliability...but not to "professional" reporters. Even if the AP and MSM did not believe Yon...why didn't they try to find out the truth themselves?

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