Congeries of cross connected concepts
As the saga of the Associated Press and Jamail Hussein winds on, it seems to me that the AP isn’t taking advantage of the situation on the ground. Why not just claim that Hussein was killed by a car bomb? Or better yet, killed by a government death squad for fearlessly reporting the truth and that he was found out because of the publicity surrounding this issue. Best of all, claim that Centcom and the Iraqi government did, in fact, find him but then had him killed before announcing that he didn’t exist. It would be just as accurate and dramatic as the AP’s current reporting and provide an explanation that would provide the impenetrable shield of conspiracy theory in the AP’s target market.
| cjm Thursday, 04 January 2007 at 01:34 |  |
i see peter sellers in the role of jamil.
| David Cohen Thursday, 04 January 2007 at 08:53 | |
I would think that the answer is that AP is not dishonest itself; it outsources its dishonesty.
| pj Thursday, 04 January 2007 at 10:44 | |
If you outsource dishonesty, you’re not honest.
I would think they are willing to sacrifice the truth, but not themselves, and a blatant lie would be self-destructive. They want the controversy to die from lack of discussion, and are saying as little as possible.
| cjm Thursday, 04 January 2007 at 11:09 | |
and because all of their competitors in the msm are equally guilty, it can’t be used to competetive advantage by any of them.
