Trust the MSM? I don't think so!

Let's start with the reports from Police Capt. Jamil Hussein (and related issues), in Baghdad. The A(wT)P says he's their main source for lots and lots and lots of Iraqi news over the past few years. The bloggers questioned his ubiquity and his veracity, and Eason Jordan, hoping to improve his 'net cred, challenged two of the more vocal of those bloggers to accompany him to Iraq to see if they could find Capt. Hussein to ask him a few personal questions (like, "Where are you from, and how come you get reports from nearly every district of Baghdad, even though nobody in the US military or the Iraqi Ministry of Interior has heard of you?" "How come you say six mosques and several men were set afire, and nobody anywhere else in the city offers even the remotest confirmation?" etc.).

Here's what Mr. Jordan has to say now(HT:lgf):

If an Iraqi police captain by the name of Jamil Hussein exists, there is no convincing evidence of it - and that means the Associated Press has a journalistic scandal on its hands that will fester until the AP deals with it properly.

This controversy and the AP’s handling of it call into question the credibility, integrity, and smarts of one of the world’s biggest, most influential, most respected news organizations, the New York-based Associated Press.

If there's one thing Mr. Jordan is sensitive about, it's media credibility. Gateway Pundit has much more.



And then there's the NYT. Yesterday, it stated, among other things, that the cellphone Saddam snuff film was posted in its entirety on, among other sites, littlegreenfootballs.com. Not quite. And, when asked for a correction to be made, did they do it? Not quite.

Two of the largest, most powerful news sources in the world have serious problems getting their facts straight, and can't admit they even have a problem.

Bloggers like Charles Johnson are working up an intervention, but I wonder if the disease has gone too far to save the NYT and A(wT)P?