AFP recycles Iraq “quagmire” story three weeks later
posted at 10:28 am on December 26, 2006 by Allahpundit
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They’ve been recycling this metaphor for 40 years, why not recycle stories about it too?
Look what the Freepers caught. December 4th:
Versus an hour ago:
Note that they didn’t just re-run the story, either. Someone, presumably the author, actually re-wrote each paragraph to change the phrasing slightly.
Let me whip up a side by side comparison. Back in a few.
Update: Here’s the side by side. December 4th on the left, today on the right. I left in the red underscores from Microsoft Word to show you some of the spelling mistakes.
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Slow news day. Slow reporters.
JammieWearingFool on December 26, 2006 at 10:30 AM
Well, the AFP has to do something to lift their spirits after finding out Saddam has less than 31 days left to live.
steveegg on December 26, 2006 at 10:43 AM
The MSM are lying pigs.
georgej on December 26, 2006 at 10:58 AM
Do quagmires cause erosion?
CrankyNeocon on December 26, 2006 at 11:01 AM
If a quagmire erodes, doesn’t that mean things are getting better? Sounds like a double negative.
MamaAJ on December 26, 2006 at 11:20 AM
You should let the AFP know that someone at the AFP is plagiarizing the AFP :).
Kevin M on December 26, 2006 at 11:49 AM
Declining viewer-/readership. Fake news. Photoshopped pics. Recycled articles.
The left-stream media is on its last leg.
JinxMcHue on December 26, 2006 at 12:02 PM
An obvious failure of imagination. Usually they prefer to just make [stuff] up.
bdfaith on December 26, 2006 at 12:32 PM
but I thought the msm was unbiased?
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One Angry Christian on December 26, 2006 at 12:45 PM
Where is Jamill when we need him. Without the ace reporter (and I suspect others like him), all of the news media is scrambling.
Better to recycle than be caught creating.
right2bright on December 26, 2006 at 2:03 PM
This is effing pathetic… and you know what? Most of us consider this par for the course and small time stuff… but this is one of those things that can’t be denied or missed by your average “evening news” type viewer. This SHOULD BE one of the top stories of the day on every news program, be it cable or broadcast, busting these a-holes. So we can quit being looked at as conspiracy theorists when we talk about the liberal and lazy idiot media.
This is like what I used to do when I had to write papers in like elementary/junior high school. I’d take a bunch of information from the encyclopedia, and basically rewrite it all, with my own wording. It wasn’t nearly as bad as this, I actually read it, took what I understood it to say, and rewrote it, but with often the same paragraph breakdown, etc… but rarely even 4 or 5 consecutive words being the same as anything from the source… plus of course the sources were always cited.
But WTF?! These are paid MSM journalists!
RightWinged on December 26, 2006 at 4:22 PM
DEATH TO AP!!!!!!!
DEATH TO AP!!!!!!!
DEATH TO AP!!!!!!!
DEATH TO AP!!!!!!!
I have lost all faith in them having any nuetrality on any topic. I have little doubt that even sports, and weather news, has a spin to it! If this country of ours actually reaches a state of civil war, I believe the AP is a legitimate military target because of their propaganda.
Till then we can harass and expose them. I think by being relentless in our effort to reach family and friends, we can take them down. I am to the point that it is our patriotic duty to publically condemn AP at every opportunity, and in every place we can.
Make a new years resolution: Death to AP!
USA, all the way!
ValhallaMike on December 26, 2006 at 4:29 PM
Big Surprise - the same old story - Republicans Bad, Democrats Good, Bad Bad Bad Bush.
More support for the conclusion that many components of the MSM are propaganda outlets for the Left.
Thanks for the story and your vigilance.
omegaram on December 26, 2006 at 8:23 PM
Your point isn’t entirely lost, because the AP is a POS.. but this story is about the French news agency AFP
RightWinged on December 27, 2006 at 1:50 AM