Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Jul 3, 2012 13:19:44 GMT 10
I'm going to pick random bolt threads and take a look at them now that some time has passed. I've said before that I think his M.O. relies on milking stories during the window of opportunity between when the wrong information is released and when the facts come to light. Sometimes it's only a few days. It's the "first to be wrong, first to move on" business model. Anyhey ...
"Do Wikileaks and its partners, not least the Sydney Morning Herald, have blood on their hands?"
blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/a_wikihanging/
Quoting cut-and-paste (and, as increasingly common, adding nothing of his own except that little shot of bad luck that comes to a story from being mentioned on a herald sun blog):
And it's a great story, if you don't have access to any of the facts. But by the time iran hung this guy, they DID have access to all of the facts - namely, the unredacted wikileaks cable that this is all supposed to be based on:
www.cablegatesearch.net/cable.php?id=09BAKU687
Bottom line ... that's not the guy in the cable. Wrong guy. Wrong martial art, no mention of israel. The charges against the prisoner had nothing to do with the contents of the cable. The story's wrong. The opposite of right. But by gum ... it was handy to be able to whack wikileaks with something, wasn't it?
Of course, nobody who reads the murdoch press will ever find out that the first tin-foil theories were factually incorrect. They'll remember the allegations (shot through with enough MFEDs that the oz, and bolta, and the UK times can claim deniability) but they'll never ever find out that the allegations were as good as made up.
And that's the special little piece of magic that a mention on bolta's blog seems to bring to a story. I don't think it's deliberate. I honestly don't. I just think it's ... luck.
"Do Wikileaks and its partners, not least the Sydney Morning Herald, have blood on their hands?"
blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/a_wikihanging/
Quoting cut-and-paste (and, as increasingly common, adding nothing of his own except that little shot of bad luck that comes to a story from being mentioned on a herald sun blog):
Philip Dorling, SMH, March 1:
Fairfax Media has secured access to the emails through an investigative partnership with WikiLeaks.
Only in early editions of the Sydney Morning Herald last Thursday:
KILLER executed. Iran has executed a man for the assassination of one of its nuclear scientists, Iranian state media reported. It said the man, Majid Jamali Fashi, was an Israeli agent.
The Australian, last Thursday:
AN Iranian who was hanged yesterday for allegedly murdering a nuclear scientist on behalf of Israel might have lost his life because of a confidential US embassy cable that was published by WikiLeaks, analysts have said. Majid Jamali Fashi, 24, was arrested one month after the unauthorised publication of a cable from the embassy, in Azerbaijan, which described one of its sources as an Iranian martial arts expert. There was no comment from a WikiLeaks spokesman last night.
And it's a great story, if you don't have access to any of the facts. But by the time iran hung this guy, they DID have access to all of the facts - namely, the unredacted wikileaks cable that this is all supposed to be based on:
www.cablegatesearch.net/cable.php?id=09BAKU687
Bottom line ... that's not the guy in the cable. Wrong guy. Wrong martial art, no mention of israel. The charges against the prisoner had nothing to do with the contents of the cable. The story's wrong. The opposite of right. But by gum ... it was handy to be able to whack wikileaks with something, wasn't it?
Of course, nobody who reads the murdoch press will ever find out that the first tin-foil theories were factually incorrect. They'll remember the allegations (shot through with enough MFEDs that the oz, and bolta, and the UK times can claim deniability) but they'll never ever find out that the allegations were as good as made up.
And that's the special little piece of magic that a mention on bolta's blog seems to bring to a story. I don't think it's deliberate. I honestly don't. I just think it's ... luck.
