[fluff]

Dunno if any of you remember the background to this;

George Galloway MP

 

[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 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?

 

[$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.

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?