Globe tried intimidation

Joseph Farah of WorldNetDaily has insight on the intimidation the Boston Globe used on WND for exposing the Globe’s scandal:

The staff at the Boston Globe was furious at WorldNetDaily for exposing their gaffe.

Within minutes of the posting of the story, the Globe reporter and editors were angrily demanding WND editors retract the story, pull it from the website, make it go away.

Why?

The reporter first told WND editors that our reporter, Sherrie Gossett, had not identified herself as a journalist.

After Gossett produced e-mails in which she clearly identified herself as a journalist and offered up links to four previous stories she had written on the subject of the bogus rape photos in an effort to help the Globe, the story changed.

Then one of the editors told me our reporter had failed to explain she was eliciting information for the purpose of preparing a story.

Farah is now asking the Globe to do the right thing:

Too many Americans, perhaps the Boston Globe included, are eager to see the USA get a black eye in Iraq. They are ready, willing and able to expect the worst about our conduct in this war. Some are projecting, before the evidence is in, this scandal is just part of the systematic and widespread human rights abuses perpetrated by the U.S. military.

Without wasting any more time, without fueling any more anti-American hatred and before endangering any more American lives, the Boston Globe should do the right thing – make a full and complete retraction of those photos.

And maybe the Globe editors should thank WND for bringing this matter to their attention instead of blaming us for their embarrassment.

I am echo those points in regard to the Argus Leader. The evidence of bias produced by SDP, DVT, myself, and others is overwhelming. Instead of attacking the messengers, Randell Beck should thank us for bringing the facts to his attention and print a full disclosure of what has been going on behind the scenes regarding the pro-Democratic activities of David Kranz.

Perhaps the reason why Beck won't do the right thing, is because the bias is institutional. Today's Argus Leader again puts the anti-American story regarding the prison scandal on the front page, while the Berg coverage is on page 4A.

Bob Kohn is critical of the New York Times for also not giving the Berg story it's proper weight:

Only a day after we discovered the brutal slaying of an American in Iraq, the New York Times made sure its front page became a platform for those charging it was Bush's fault.

The beheading of Nick Berg did something that the Times rarely does: It put things into perspective. While likening the abuse of a handful of prisoners in Iraq to a fraternity prank may unduly minimize the disgraceful acts of a few soldiers, the horrific murder of Berg put the prison abuse scandal in its proper context.

Unfortunately, it was not a context that happened to serve the Times's political agenda. While the Times played up the prison abuse scandal, it is not only downplaying Berg's murder by al-Qaida, it is happily playing up attempts to blame the Bush administration for the atrocity.

To the Times, Berg's beheading – the most blatant human-rights abuse in recent memory – was worthy of some front-page real estate, but no where near the square footage accorded the prison abuse scandal. Compare the front-page of the May 6 Sunday Times with the front page of the Times on Wednesday, May 12, and you will see which story the Times thinks is more important.

Perhaps the Argus Leader deserves the same criticism that many are handing out to Big Media.