OX NEWS: We allege, We retract
waxy.org reports:
Recently, I noticed that several webloggers that discussed the suspected chemical weapons plant found in southern Iraq on March 24 weren't mentioning those claims turned out to be false, even after the story was retracted revised on USA Today, New York Times, the Washington Post, and Yahoo's front page yesterday. ... In brief, here are my findings. 112 weblogs linked to the original story, but didn't follow up with another entry or correct their existing entry in any way. 28 weblogs linked to the original story, and later posted a correction or other addendum. 8 weblogs only linked to the story after it proved to be false, but didn't link to it when the news originally broke.When you're done with that, head over to the Ox News Channel and start reloading.
Comments
I can't believe how hard they're still running at the WMD angle.
Wasn't part of the whole justification of going after Hussein that he was a dictator that was not afraid to use weapons of mass destruction and that he would use them against Americans blah, blah, blah?
So then WHY DIDN'T IRAQ USE WMD DURING THE WAR???
Does it really matter what they find now? Are we going to get all postmodern if they are found and talk about how Hussein, if left alone, would have used them, even though given the opportunity to use them against U.S. troops, he didn't?
Posted by: zagg | April 11, 2003 11:42 AM