Tag Archive 'The New Republic'

An Article I Wish I Wrote - Iowahawks’ TNR ‘Shock Troops’ Investigation Diaries

Terry Trippany on Dec 06 2007 | Filed under: Feature Article, Media Watch

The New Republic’s Fact Checking Process

Every now and then you read something that blows you away. Iowahawk has done it again with his version of Franklin Foer’s long winded explanation of how The New Republic published a series of articles that slandered our troops with fabricated lies about their actions on the battlefield.
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The New Republic is Full of Crap, Falls Short on Defensive Mea Culpa Over Fake Troop Slandering Series

Terry Trippany on Dec 03 2007 | Filed under: Feature Article, Media Watch

The New Republic finally published a half-hearted apology and pseudo-explanation of their culpability surrounding the fake troop slandering “Baghdad Diarist” series that they published over the summer. Editor Franklin Foer’s explanation of how they were willingly duped is by itself a gutless defense of the failure by the editors at The New Republic to even [...]

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