Jamil Hussein: Is the AP tacitly admitting the fabrication?
In the wake of my January 25 letter to the Board of Directors of the Associated Press concerning the news organization’s inaccurate reporting of the November 24 Hurriyah assault by Shia militias on Sunni mosques–a letter in which I provided to the Board of Directors the real name of AP source “Jamil Hussein”–the official Associated Press web site containing all of AP’s official responses regarding Hurriyah has curiously withdrawn the January 4 article by AP reporter Steven R. Hurst claiming that Jamil Hussein is Jamil [Gholaiem] Hussein.
He has a screenshot of the now-missing article, and it is still up at Editor&Publisher.
It has been a month and we still don’t know what’s going on. This is not going away. If the AP would like me to write them something admitting the sketchiness of the initial reports, blaming conditions and stress, and faulted the blogospheric critics, I could do that. I wouldn’t believe a word of it, as I think the Associated Press is worse than fraudulent in this case, but if they pay well and place no restrictions on me refuting myself, I’ll do it.
UPDATE (tully): See the update at CY, and see the comment section below.
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