Saturday, May 15, 2004
One More Head Still Needs to Roll
Hey, anybody can screw up. It happens.
But the flat out intellectual dishonesty at the Boston Globe over the Sex in War photos currently being documented by Sherrie Gossett at the conservative news site World Net Daily is far, far worse, in my opinion, than the Daily Mirror simply being taken in by a hoax that was far, far less obvious than the one that fooled the Globe.
And the Mirror editor lost his job over it.
In this case, the reporter got the story right to begin with--at least, as right as anyone without a priori knowledge of the origin of the photos, which had already been exposed in porn industry news outlets.
(Yep, everybody's got a trade publication now.)
Ironically, the Boston Globe is published by the New York Times company. You remember, the same company that published an article calling Drudge "notoriously unreliable")
The Globe Ombudsman, Chris Chinlund, writes that she was unable to trace the photos to their source. But several outlets had already done just that. What's more, the Globe's own reporter, Donovan Slack, bought a 5-day subscription to the site, Sex in War, and found some of the images there.
The Globe is closer to the mark with this one, but it took three days of being dragged through the mud in order to get them to mention what was the obvious story all along: Councilman Turner and the Nation of Islam were distributing pornography and passing it off as authentic images of US troops in action.
But I reiterate, the whole scandal could have been avoided, and readers much better served, had the Globe reached out at some point to hire a few veterans into their newsroom. An intern, a factchecker, a reporter, an editor. Any veteran could have spotted these photos as fakes in a heartbeat.
Splash, out
Jason
But the flat out intellectual dishonesty at the Boston Globe over the Sex in War photos currently being documented by Sherrie Gossett at the conservative news site World Net Daily is far, far worse, in my opinion, than the Daily Mirror simply being taken in by a hoax that was far, far less obvious than the one that fooled the Globe.
And the Mirror editor lost his job over it.
In this case, the reporter got the story right to begin with--at least, as right as anyone without a priori knowledge of the origin of the photos, which had already been exposed in porn industry news outlets.
(Yep, everybody's got a trade publication now.)
Ironically, the Boston Globe is published by the New York Times company. You remember, the same company that published an article calling Drudge "notoriously unreliable")
The Globe Ombudsman, Chris Chinlund, writes that she was unable to trace the photos to their source. But several outlets had already done just that. What's more, the Globe's own reporter, Donovan Slack, bought a 5-day subscription to the site, Sex in War, and found some of the images there.
The Globe is closer to the mark with this one, but it took three days of being dragged through the mud in order to get them to mention what was the obvious story all along: Councilman Turner and the Nation of Islam were distributing pornography and passing it off as authentic images of US troops in action.
But I reiterate, the whole scandal could have been avoided, and readers much better served, had the Globe reached out at some point to hire a few veterans into their newsroom. An intern, a factchecker, a reporter, an editor. Any veteran could have spotted these photos as fakes in a heartbeat.
Splash, out
Jason
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