Telephone: MSM Edition
Remember that old children’s game Telephone? Where one kid invents a sentence and whispers it to another kid and so on until the last kid has no clue what was said, and where the kid who sits next to the kid with the really bad speech impediment always either loses or gets sent to the principle’s office? OK, maybe that last part was just me.
Anyhow, we have an incident of this “game” in the international press over the past 24 hours, starting with the first kid, the Washington Post, releasing an “exclusive” story that:
Iran May Have Sent Libya Shells for Chemical Weapons
The story describes an investigation that long ago (how long? We don’t know) Libya bought some shells that they (Libya) later filled with “mustard agent” which is like mustard gas but scarier sounding. And they might’ve bought those shells (though not the chemicals) from Iran, which is surprising since the Iranian government never much seemed to care for Gadhafi. It’s a Washington Post exclusive so subsequent stories largely rely on it for information… but not headlines (here’s where the fun starts).
Iran May Have Given Libya Artillery Shells
Report: Iran Supplied Qaddafi with Shells for Chemical Weapons
Iran may have supplied Qaddafi’s regime with chemical weapons
Chemical Weapons Found in Libya May Have Come from Iran
And last but certainly not least, our globetrotting Telephone trek comes to rest in good ol’ Australia, at the Herald Sun.
Iran may have sent Libya chemical weapons
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El Tonno
November 21st, 2011 at 11:14 am
I would laugh if this weren't so sad.
Rich
November 21st, 2011 at 12:08 pm
More evidence that most reporters are lazy and most editors just want a snappy headline to draw in readers.
skulz fontaine
November 21st, 2011 at 1:30 pm
So okay, it was Colonel Mustard with the "agent" in the Library of Congress? I read that in the Jerusalem/Washington Post. I think it was the formerly Tommy Ricks that had the by-line.
Wyandotte
November 21st, 2011 at 4:07 pm
I am so sorry, but I just burst out laughing. It just came tumblling out.
Superfluid
November 23rd, 2011 at 1:03 pm
Pentagon-media complex.
giveuponmyspecie
November 26th, 2011 at 4:23 pm
How about this:
Debkafiles writes that the explosion near tehran was due to attempt on mounting nuclear warhead on shehab missiles. Damn those guys are good!
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