Smart-Ass Dog Story Debunked

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2011/06/story_removal.html

Story removal- BBC News website
Nathalie Malinarich | 17:15 UK time, Wednesday, 22 June 2011
You may have noticed a headline in our "most popular" module about a dog being condemned to stoning in Israel. It was followed a few days later by a denial: Jerusalem court denies dog condemned by stoning. The first story has now been taken down. This is not a step we often take so I wanted to explain why we have done so on this occasion. We based our article on sources we have used in the past: Ynet, a popular Israeli website, and the news agency AFP. What we did not know when we wrote the story was that the Israeli Hebrew-language newspaper Maariv had already published a retraction and an apology. We failed to make the right checks. We should never have written the article and apologise for any offence caused. We have kept the story carrying the denial in the interests of transparency.


I posted this story.
got jumped on hard immediately.
Apparently this week old story was debunked and posted on this board several times.
I missed the story and the debunking because I was on vacation
So - here is the recap thread