What Smacks of Desperation?
AP is trying to use arrogance to address the challenge to their source in a report they filed on an alleged incident in Baghdad. USATODAY.com - On Deadline | Archives | AP, U.S. military spar over atrocities report
“The attempt to question the existence of the known police officer who spoke to the AP is frankly ludicrous and hints at a certain level of desperation to dispute or suppress the facts of the incident in question,” AP International Editor John Daniszewski said in a statement e-mailed to On Deadline this afternoon.Well, it’s good that the AP has used this guy before. We wouldn’t want them to use an unknown source. The fact that they’ve used him before adds nothing to the veracity of his claim to be a police officer. Perhaps the AP reporter could check with officials in Iraq or in Centcom to see if his bona fides check out?He added that “we have conducted a thorough review of the sourcing and reporting involved and plan to move a more detailed report about the entire incident soon, with greater detail provided by multiple eye witnesses.”
“The police captain cited in our story has long been known to the AP reporters,” Daniszewski wrote.
“The AP stands by its story.”
Junkyard Blog has more on the questionable nature of the sources used in AP’s and other reporting coming out of Iraq.
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