WorldNetDaily has extensive coverage of today’s Boston Globe response to it’s printing of fake pornographic photos depicting actors posing as US Soldiers raping Iraqi women:
The Boston Globe today tried to distance itself from its admitted error in publishing pornographic photos fraudulently depicting the rape of Iraqi women by American GIs by blaming the city councilor who distributed the pictures at a press conference.In an editorial, the paper admitted for the first time the photos were "bogus" and "appeared" to be taken from a porn site, but in a separate article, the Globe's ombudsman claims she still has failed to discover the source of the photos and still has not confirmed or denied their veracity to readers.
The following reminds me of Argus Leader executive editor Randell Beck’s response (or lack thereof) when confronted with hard facts that proves his star political reporter, David Kranz, has a long and close relationships with Democrats...including Tom Daschle:
Ombudsman Chris Chinlund contended she still did not know the source of the photographs, but WND has copies of e-mails proving otherwise.Chinlund wrote: "Various sources last week said the photos displayed by Turner came from a pornography website, and they may well have, although I could not trace it to the source."
The WND e-mails to Chinlund, reporter Donovan Slack and editor Marty Baron gave the address of the "Sex in War" site, from which the photos were taken. Select photos also were carried on "Iraq Babes," which has been shut down following WND's original report. But WND told the Globe all the images were contained on the "Sex in War" site and also gave the URL to the companion marketing site.
In addition, on Wednesday, at the Globe's request, WND walked reporter Slack through part of the "Sex in War" site - for which she paid a 5-day subscription - until she could see two of the scenes shown by the Globe. Slack then was left to find the others.
When Slack realized the images were exact matches with the porn shoots she said, "This is ridiculous!" and quipped, "I'll be working at Penthouse soon!"
Nevertheless, Chinlund had only this to say in today's Globe piece:
"I did find one news website with a note from a woman identified as the porn site operator. She was quoted as saying the images, shot in Hungary, had been removed because they were used for anti-American purposes."
The reference is to WND's story about the shutting down of "Iraq Babes," but she avoided commenting about the parent Hungarian site, "Sex in War," which never has been shut down, and as Chinlund repeatedly was told by WND, is the source of all the images.
Also, the photo mix-up already has been covered thoroughly in pornography industry news media.
In addition, Chinlund did not mention she was given all of WND's investigative pieces on the subject, which provide a complete explanation of the origin of the photos.Editor Baron refused to speak with WND yesterday, when told WND wanted to question him on why the Globe was refusing to admit it knows the images came from a porn website.
He also refused to answer e-mails indicating WND's surprise over the comments the Globe ombudsman made in a story by Agence France-Presse in which she implied she had no idea where the photos came from and had "failed" to find their source.
Chinlund also did not respond to WND's e-mail and verbal messages, including this one:
"Since the Globe has known for over 24 hours that the photos were taken from the porn site ["Sex in War"], which was, contrary to your statement, never taken down, I'd like to get your comments for publication."
I have also posted screen shots of IraqBabes.com that looked a lot like the photos the Globe published. What is being missed by the Globe’s lack of accountability and lack of disclosure is how anti-American propagandists have used these fake photos in Iraq to throw gas on an already hot fire. The mainstream media is not doing its job. It is only through Internet news sources such as WorldNetDaily does in-depth coverage expose the truth. The truth the world needs to understand.
I also know the world is hungry for the truth. This web site is being found by Google searches from many due to my coverage of this WorldNetDaily investigative work that should make all journalists envious.
UPDATE: As usual, Glenn Reynolds has more on this. He also found this gem.
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