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Wednesday, November 29, 2006

The Evolution of a Myth: "Six Iraqi Men Burned"

Here is how the wire services can take a lie and turn it into something the “everybody knows.”

The AP appears to have been using a fictional character to report fictional events. When called on it, they adamantly “stand by their story.”

Mary Katherine Ham shows how it’s done.

It’s chilling.

For more on the story see my previous posts HERE, HERE, HERE.

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