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Politics : Bush Administration's Media Manipulation--MediaGate? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (6323)	3/23/2006 11:02:07 AM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9838

Tutu is a piece of human ** CORRECTED VERSION Osama a child of God: Desmond Tutu Canada Free Press ^ \| March 23, 2006 \| Judi McLeod The former Archbishop of Cape Town and Nobel Peace Prize winner,[ Terrorist mass-murderer Yasser Arafart was also a 'Nobel Peace prize' winner ] Desmond Tutu sees Osama bin Laden as just another member of “God's family”. That's what Archbishop Tutu told the World Council of Churches (WCC) [the World Council of Churches is a one of the most overtly communist organizations in the world ]recently, but only after he called for the closure of the detention centre at Cuba's Guantanamo Bay. Wide sweeping in naming family members on God's behalf, he threw President George W. Bush into the familial mix. “God's family,” according to Archbishop Desmond Tutu includes, “Bush, bin Laden, all belong, gay, lesbian, so-called straight**-all belong and are loved, are precious.” “Thou shall not kill,” seems to have flown out the window as far as this Anglican leader is concerned. “A united church is no optional extra,” Archbishop Tutu said in a barn-burning speech to the WCC 9th Assembly in Porto Alegre. “It is indispensable for the salvation of God's world.” All belong to one family, he said: “Jesus was quite serious when he said that God was our father, that we belonged to one family, because in this family all, not some, are insiders.” Expanding on his beliefs to journalists after the speech, he said that Christians “did not have to feel insecure in the face of people from other faiths”. He had brought up gay and lesbian people, he said, because “I would not be able to keep quiet and see people penalized for something about which they could do nothing.” Much of the blame for the suffering of the Zimbabwe people belongs to Tutu, for he strongly promoted Robert Mugabe. canadafreepress.com

To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (6323)	3/23/2006 11:39:15 AM
From: paret	Respond to of 9838

NEW YORK TIMES CAN'T GET ANYTHING RIGHT Another Bad Slip for 'NY Times': Katrina Victim Unmasked By EDITORAND PUBLISHER March 23, 2006 10:10 AM ET NEW YORK For the second time in less than a week, The New York Times today admitted to a serious error in a story. On Saturday it said it had misidentified a man featured in the iconic "hooded inmate" photograph from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Today it discloses that a woman it profiled on March 8 is not, in fact, a victim of Hurricane Katrina--and was arrested for fraud and grand larceny yesterday. As it did in the Abu Ghraib mistake, the Times ran an editors' note on page 2 of its front section, along with a lengthy news article (this time on the front page of Section B). Again mirroring the Abu Ghraib episode, the newspaper revealed a surprising and inexplicable lapse in fact-checking on the part of a reporter and/or editor. The original article, more than 1000 words in length, was written by Nicholas Confessore. He also wrote the news article about the error today. Without saying that he wrote the first story, he wrote today: "The Times did not verify many aspects of Ms. Fenton's claims, never interviewed her children, and did not confirm the identity of the man she described as her husband." The editors' note states: "An article in The Metro Section on March 8 profiled Donna Fenton, identifying her as a 37-year-old victim of Hurricane Katrina who had fled Biloxi, Miss., and who was frustrated in efforts to get federal aid as she and her children remained as emergency residents of a hotel in Queens. "Yesterday, the New York police arrested Ms. Fenton, charging her with several counts of welfare fraud and grand larceny. Prosecutors in Brooklyn say she was not a Katrina victim, never lived in Biloxi and had improperly received thousands of dollars in government aid. Ms. Fenton has pleaded not guilty. "For its profile, The Times did not conduct adequate interviews or public record checks to verify Ms. Fenton's account, including her claim that she had lived in Biloxi. Such checks would have uncovered a fraud conviction and raised serious questions about the truthfulness of her account." Last Saturday, the Times editors' note disclosed that Ali Shalal Qaissi, pictured on the front page "as the hooded man forced to stand on a box, attached to wires, in a photograph from the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal of 2003 and 2004," was not that man. "The Times did not adequately research Mr. Qaissi's insistence that he was the man in the photograph," it related. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- E&P Staff (letters@editorandpublisher.com)