Kurtz: HuffPost "Blew The Whistle" On Phony National Review Reports

Washington Post:

After nearly five months of mounting criticism, the New Republic yesterday disavowed reports about petty wartime cruelty in Iraq, saying the magazine had lost faith in the Army private who wrote them....

...The magazine's admission came as National Review Online acknowledged that two postings it carried from Lebanon by W. Thomas Smith Jr., a former Marine, were "misleading." One involved a report that 4,000 to 5,000 Hezbollah gunmen had "deployed to the Christian areas of Beirut in an unsettling 'show of force.' " No other journalist in Lebanon has reported seeing such a deployment....

...In the polarized world of the blogosphere, conservative Web sites, led by the Weekly Standard, hammered at the flawed reports in the New Republic, while the liberal Huffington Post blew the whistle on National Review. But while liberal bloggers pounced on Smith's work yesterday, they were joined by conservative Michelle Malkin, who accused the writer of "bogus, shoddy reporting" and "phenomenal errors."

Read the whole story: Washington Post

Comments

[waiguoren]

07:59 AM on 12/05/2007

National Review, New Republic, Weekly Standard, HuffPo...?

These few paragraphs are as confusedly written as anything I've seen at this site.

A jumble of names of peolple and publications that are unsorted properly for the reader.

And I don't have a scorecard....

[swift goat pet for truth]

01:45 AM on 12/05/2007

Kurtz = even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Zero credibility.

[realitytrumpsbull]

12:30 AM on 12/05/2007

I think we left yellow journalism behind a long
time ago, to be replaced by rainbow journalism,
tiger-stripe journalism, pick-your-own-skin
journalism, do-it-yourself journalism, it's
kind of a big contest, in some ways, to see
who can tell the best teary-eyed/awe-inspiring/
fear-inspiring/confidence-inspiring B.S. story.
It's kind of always been that way, but now
that the Internets is out there, it's not
just Randolph Hearst trying to pull your leg
and pick your pocket. Nice, thing, though,
is that there's a lot more investigative
reporters out there also to keep em honest.
Remember the Maine!

LOL