Boston Globe in Hot Water--AGAIN
Well the Boston Globe has done it again; the newspaper whose motto ought to be, “If we want it to be true, it might as well be, even if it isn’t.”
Seems Barbara Stewart, a free lance reporter for the Globe wrote a graphic and detailed account of the annual baby seal harvest taking place in Canada. Like a good reporter she gave the number of hunters and described the waters turning red with the blood of these little animals as brutal and inhumane hunters used harpoons to mercilessly spear these little cubs by the hundreds. There was one little snag, okay, two little snags, in her report. The first was she was in Halifax rather than at the scene which the Globe not only knew but approved. Nobody would have been any the wiser accept for the second little snag. Because of foul weather, the hunt was cancelled until a later date.
That’s right, this ace Globe reporter, reported, with all the gory details, a seal hunt that hadn’t taken place. Oops, or should I say, “Oops again.” Remember the fake pictures from Iraq the Globe ran with and of course the scandal with Jason Blair at the New York Times which happens to be the parent company of the Boston Globe. The Globe’s comment about Stewart was, “The author's failure to accurately report the status of the hunt and her fabrication of details at the scene are clear violations of the Globe's journalistic standards.”
One of the Globe’s Editors, “James Smith said that the newspaper knew Stewart was not at the seal hunt and was doing her reporting from Halifax. "What she told us -- and we did check during the day -- was that she had confirmed with one of the fishermen in the story that it was going ahead," adding that in retrospect the paper should have worked harder to clarify this.” Ya think?
What was the Globe’s statement again, “The author's failure to accurately report the status of the hunt and her fabrication of details at the scene are clear violations of the Globe's journalistic standards.” On the contrary, I would say she exemplified the standards of the Globe and the Times, it just kind of blew up in their face--again.
I don’t know which is scarier; that this sort of stuff goes on or that there are people out there who truly believe that even though the story was fake, it was “an accurate of what could happen” so what’s the big deal?
Once again, the casualty is truth as relativism reigns supreme! Thank God, He is not so inclined!
Seems Barbara Stewart, a free lance reporter for the Globe wrote a graphic and detailed account of the annual baby seal harvest taking place in Canada. Like a good reporter she gave the number of hunters and described the waters turning red with the blood of these little animals as brutal and inhumane hunters used harpoons to mercilessly spear these little cubs by the hundreds. There was one little snag, okay, two little snags, in her report. The first was she was in Halifax rather than at the scene which the Globe not only knew but approved. Nobody would have been any the wiser accept for the second little snag. Because of foul weather, the hunt was cancelled until a later date.
That’s right, this ace Globe reporter, reported, with all the gory details, a seal hunt that hadn’t taken place. Oops, or should I say, “Oops again.” Remember the fake pictures from Iraq the Globe ran with and of course the scandal with Jason Blair at the New York Times which happens to be the parent company of the Boston Globe. The Globe’s comment about Stewart was, “The author's failure to accurately report the status of the hunt and her fabrication of details at the scene are clear violations of the Globe's journalistic standards.”
One of the Globe’s Editors, “James Smith said that the newspaper knew Stewart was not at the seal hunt and was doing her reporting from Halifax. "What she told us -- and we did check during the day -- was that she had confirmed with one of the fishermen in the story that it was going ahead," adding that in retrospect the paper should have worked harder to clarify this.” Ya think?
What was the Globe’s statement again, “The author's failure to accurately report the status of the hunt and her fabrication of details at the scene are clear violations of the Globe's journalistic standards.” On the contrary, I would say she exemplified the standards of the Globe and the Times, it just kind of blew up in their face--again.
I don’t know which is scarier; that this sort of stuff goes on or that there are people out there who truly believe that even though the story was fake, it was “an accurate of what could happen” so what’s the big deal?
Once again, the casualty is truth as relativism reigns supreme! Thank God, He is not so inclined!
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