Eason Jordan, disgraced CNN news chief, knows of what he speaks when he tells AP the Jamil thing will haunt them. Jordan, now operating at the sloggily named website Iraqslogger, offered to pay for Michelle Malkin's trip to go looking for the elusive Iraqi "cop" with Team Jordan, now says there is no evidence this guy exists.
Actually, I doubt it will haunt them much. The AP will plow ahead, and remain the AP. If Jamil Hussein's apparent failure to exist is ever acknowledged, it will be buried. The AP's clients, by and large, don't care. Nor to the "ethics" gatekeepers in the business. A search of the Poynter and CJR websites turns up exactly zip on the subject. Greg Mitchell at Editor & Publisher of course is rabid Jamil believer. The NYT touched on it, at arm's length, nose held, but doesn't care.
For anyone not familiar with the story line to date, links to the running Jamildrama here.
Confederate Yankee does the grunt work to map out the sordid tale here: Gone in 60 stories.
E&P has taken Greg Mitchell off the job, presumeably while he tries to work his foot out of his mouth. Joe Strupp says the AP still likes Jamil.
Tuesday, January 2, 2007
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I suppose we could at least start by querying our local papers about their response to this AP bit o' lying.
I might just do it to have fun with the response...
AP is now suggesting that poor Jamil Hussein may have met his demise in an "ethnic cleansing".
The AP has chosen its strategy -- keep as quiet as possible and let the story die away.
Let us hope that people with the ability to look further into it will do so. Sure, it's hard to prove a negative, and, yes, the chance of a Pulitzer is slim; but it sure would be fun to ask how Kathleen Carroll would like her crow seasoned.
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