Has Rumsfeld Banned Camera Phones in Iraq?
Lots of media outlets have been reporting that Rumsfeld has decided to ban camera phones in Iraq, in the wake of the photos of prisoner abuse coming out of Abu Ghraib. For instance, the story is on
Yahoo! news, the
Washington Times, and
The Sydney Morning Herald.
The Register, at least, points out that there are doubts about the story, while also noting that it would be almost impossible to actually enforce such a ban. But what's the source for this news. The
Sydney Morning Herald refers to some British newspaper called
The Business. But what's that? Is there such a paper? The story
actually seems to come from The Daily Farce, an online satirical magazine who printed the story (as a joke) about two weeks ago. Apparently yet another example of
satirical articles being treated as real news. (via
The Prison Blog)
Posted By: Alex | Date:
Tue May 25, 2004 |
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