The hubris of Giuliana Sgrena

[RT_Fanatic]

Stupidity Alert!

Sunday, March 13, 2005
Giuliana Sgrena does not lack a sense of self-importance. The 56-year-old journalist for the Italian communist newspaper Il Manifesto thinks she knows so many deep dark secrets the U.S. military tried to shut her up permanently.

Sgrena went to Iraq to report on the heroic resistance to the American imperialists. Dutch journalist Harald Doornbos rode in the airplane to Baghdad with her.

"Be careful not to get kidnapped," Doornbos warned Sgrena.

"You don't understand the situation," she responded, according to Doornbos' account last week in Nederlands Dagblad. (Excerpts were translated into English and posted on a Dutch writer's Web blog.) "The Iraqis only kidnap American sympathizers. The enemies of the Americans have nothing to fear."

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http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05072/470072.stm


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[DenverDem]

1. Fuck jack kelley.

Nazi piece of shit.

[DulceDecorum]

2. Kelley Jacks off

3/19/2004
Seven weeks into an examination of former USA TODAY reporter Jack Kelley’s work, a team of journalists has found strong evidence that Kelley fabricated substantial portions of at least eight major stories, lifted nearly two dozen quotes or other material from competing publications, lied in speeches he gave for the newspaper and conspired to mislead those investigating his work.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/2004-03-18-2004-03-18_kelleymain_x.htm

[RT_Fanatic]

4. Not

the same Jack Kelley. This guy is Jack Kelly (no e), National Security writer for the Post-Gazette & Toledo Blade. He's a minor leage Novakula--piece of shit is correct, though.
:dunce:

[DulceDecorum]

5. Thanks

My bad.

[cornermouse]

3. Uhh, Free Republic is that way.

"But "slowly" seems to be a relative term for Italian drivers, and for communists."

Let me think of the words...insulting...belittling...racist. In other words, typical freeper attitude.

[Ms. Clio]

6. Jack Kelley Urged to Pursue Counseling

Jack Kelley's Christian journalist friends in Washington, D.C., are confronting the discredited star reporter formerly with USA Today in hopes of getting him to acknowledge publicly that he cannot vouch for the reliability of his reporting.

Several journalists contacted by Christianity Today say that Kelley, 43, seems to confuse what was fabricated and what was true in his reporting and they suggested to him that he seek professional counseling.

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According to USA Today, Kelley during a discussion session at a convention of the Evangelical Press Association concocted a story about how he had taken a photo for his story of a young woman who had drowned at sea while fleeing Cuba. The account was different from other stories that he told about the origins of the picture, and in fact, the newspaper says that the woman never was a refugee on a boat that sank, but she is alive and well in the United States as a legal immigrant. A USA Today reporter called the story "a lie from start to finish." But Kelley told the paper, "I saw it with my own eyes. Honest to God."

The paper also alleged that Kelley lied in his speeches, notably to the annual meeting at the Evangelical Press Association in 2000. For years, leading evangelicals hailed Kelley as a role model to student journalists.

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2004/112/53.0.html

[rpannier]

7. kelly and sgrena are about the same

After reading his article there are some places where I do find myself grudgingly in agreement. While I do agree that his report is severely slanted I will admit that I too have serious qualms about the bias of Ms Sgrena. I have read some of her past writings and I find her to be as oblivious to the realities of the world as many conservative idiots we hate.
I think both Mr Kelly and Ms Sgrena are cut from opposites sides of the same cloth. They're both idiots.
In addition, I may be in the minority on this, I AM giving the US soldiers the benefit of the doubt. But, not out of some twisted sort of super patriotism, but because I believe everyone is innocent until proven guilty. My only question is, "If this was such an obvious accident and the driver was speeding, why is Berlusconi (a strong scrub ally) so agitated?"

[DorianGreene]

8. I tend to agree.

About the conservatives, this woman is a hero, and one who speaketh the truth, I might add.

Chickedy-check yourself.