Amazing story here how a major US paper got duped into printing fake rape pics from a porno website that they were told were authentic Iragi rape shots.
Boston Globe publishes
bogus GI rape pictures
Taken from pornographic website
as first reported by WorldNetDaily
I wonder if this story appeared in local Taiwan newspapers and APPLE DAILY with photos? Amazing how misinformation spreads like wildfire, an how even a major paper like the Boston Glove can get hoodwinked…
“There was a lapse in judgment and procedures, and we apologize for it,” says GLOBE editor Martin Baron.
(Read the Globe’s editor’s note.)
Editor’s Note: “A photograph on Page B2 yesterday did not meet Globe standards for publication. The photo portrayed Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner and activist Sadiki Kambon displaying graphic photographs that they claimed showed US soldiers raping Iraqi women. Although the photograph was reduced in size between editions to obscure visibility of the images on display, at no time did the photograph meet Globe standards. Images contained in the photograph were overly graphic, and the purported abuse portrayed had not been authenticated. The Globe apologizes for publishing the photo.”
so were they apologizing for showing pictures of women being raped or were they aplogizing for showing FAKE rape pics that were grabbed off a porn site?
I simply can not understand the train of thought that led a major newspaper to publish rape photographs. Is it me or was something really wrong with the thinking of the editor(s) in charge of whether it was appropriate or not? The fact that they were fake is just icing on the cake.
I’m starting to wonder if idealogy overcame journalistic integrity. I.e. Was making Bush and the Iraq war look worse worth degrading a newspaper over.
Here’s an update from the Globe’s inside house editor:
Boston Globe photo chief called the porn flap a “huge embarrassment” to one of the nation’s most prominent newspapers in the Harvard/MIT/BU area, while
Globe ‘‘ombud’’ Christine Chinlund explained how the paper came to publish a photo that included sexually explicit images.
The picture of men dressed as soldiers and having sex with a woman “should have been flagged for discussion by top editors, as all sensitive or graphic photos should be,” she writes.
Photography director Catie Aldrich tells Chinlund: “There should have been a lot of checks and balances and, for whatever reason, there weren’t.”
So the Globe, the UK Mirror, who’s next in the apologies game? Maybe some big paper over the doctored and time-released Nick Berg video?
