From the Mini-Pat on the Back Department
Yesterday, my January 21 NewsBusters piece on Farris Hassan, the Florida teenager whose excellent adventure to Iraq last December garnered sugary writeups from the WORMs (Worn-Out Reactionary Media, known to most as The Mainstream Media), but whose real story has more holes in it than Swiss cheese, was recognized and excerpted in February 24’s cover story at the Canada Free Press (CFP) by Editor and Owner Judi McLeod. CFP appears to be a rough Canadian equivalent of the USA’s WorldNetDaily. Fine by me if they spell my name right, which they did once ….. and didn’t once. Oh well.
The BizzyBlog cross-posting on Hassan is here.
Also, on February 14, Geoff Metcalf at Accuracy in Media wrote, “Cinamon Stillwell and Tom Blumer at NewsBusters.org are doing stuff that MSNBC and AP ’should’ have done before providing the teenager a national/international forum and 15-minutes of fame.” I’ll agree with that, though I think my role has been overplayed (I merely assembled pieces from different stories), and I hope the story doesn’t die until a little more sunlight seeps in.
