More bogus stories from the mainstream media

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”
-Joseph Goebbels

When it comes to the American mainstream media, there is no truth and no internal accountability. The good thing is that bloggers are holding them accountable and they positively hate us. The bad thing is that leftists still control the vast majority of the print media and airwaves, except for talk radio. They’re like Pravda back in the days of Soviet Russia — they’re out to change the world, not report the news. Very few reporters actually know how to do reseach and most are willing to lie, distort, invent convenient facts, and ignore inconvenient facts.

Gateway Pundit provides an excellent post on 6 major media blunders over the past 6 weeks. Pay them a visit for links and detailed information on these make-believe stories:

TIME Magazine reports on 20 headless bodies found in Diyala. It never happened and TIME has not issued a retraction.
Baghdad family slaughtered — this widely-reported story never happened. When the family and the Iraqi government showed the family alive, smiling, and waving 2 days after they were supposed to have been, not a single western media organization reported their “error.”
Another widely-circulated story about construction worker being killed by NATO forces turned out to be bogus. Those killed were Taliban fighters.
13 people in Dwelah were reported to have been slaughtered in their sleep. It never happened.
AP and Reuters report on a rocket attack that caused a fire at the al-Dora (sometimes spelled Doura) refinery in Iraq. It turned out to be an industrial accident.
CNN reports on 12 headless bodies found in Muqdadiya. The story was phony.

Doug Ross says that if business results are any indicator, fewer and fewer people are paying attention to the mainstream media.

Here are some related posts of my own regarding the ability of the mainstream to literally lie through their teeth when reporting. For some funny reason, when they err, they always err on the side of making conservatives look bad, the economy look bad, the war not going well. If their bad reporting were due to mistakes, the bias should be shifted equally. However, it’s not, and the only conclusion one can draw is that they are intentionally not researching stories which fit their pre-conceived notions.