{"id":1273,"date":"2006-11-28T23:43:33","date_gmt":"2006-11-28T23:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-12-02T02:01:55","modified_gmt":"2006-12-02T02:01:55","slug":"ap_calls_floppi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1273","title":{"rendered":"AP “Calls” Flopping Aces…This Will Be Interesting!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been following the issues of the ‘truthiness’ of Iraq reporting with some interest, both at Patterico<\/a>‘s blog and then at Flopping Aces<\/a>, who has been pushing the story hard that the AP has been dealing with Iraqi sock puppets as sources.<\/p>\n

The AP just doubled down<\/a> with a new story:<\/p>\n

The Iraqi Defense Ministry later said that al-Hashimi, the Sunni elder in Hurriyah, had recanted his account of the attack after being visited by a representative of the defense minister.<\/p>\n

\nThe dispute comes at a time when the military is taking a more active role in dealing with the media.<\/p>\n

\nThe AP reported on Sept. 26 that a Washington-based firm, the Lincoln Group, had won a two-year contract to monitor reporting on the Iraq conflict in English-language and Arabic media outlets.<\/p>\n

\nThat contract succeeded one held by another Washington firm, The Rendon Group. Controversy had arisen around the Lincoln Group in 2005 when it was disclosed that it was part of a U.S. military operation to pay Iraqi newspapers to run positive stories about U.S. military activities.<\/p>\n

\nSeeking further information about Friday’s attack, an AP reporter contacted Hussein for a third time about the incident to confirm there was no error. The captain has been a regular source of police information for two years and had been visited by the AP reporter in his office at the police station on several occasions. The captain, who gave his full name as Jamil Gholaiem Hussein, said six people were indeed set on fire.<\/p>\n

\nOn Tuesday, two AP reporters also went back to the Hurriyah neighborhood around the Mustafa mosque and found three witnesses who independently gave accounts of the attack. Others in the neighborhood said they were afraid to talk about what happened.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Armed Liberal notes an AP story that calls out a blogger’s claims. Who’s right? Who’s got popcorn?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}