Credibility of TNR continues to erode due to Beauchamp fabrications
 
From the Drudge Report:
SHOCK DOCS: THE NEW REPUBLIC 'SHOCK TROOPS' STORY COLLAPSES WED Oct 24 2007 12:29:44 ET The DRUDGE REPORT has obtained internal documents from the investigation of THE NEW REPUBLIC'S "Baghdad Diarist", Scott Thomas Beauchamp, an Army private turned war correspondent who reported tales of military malfeasance from the Iraq War front. The documents appear to expose that once the veracity of Beauchamp's diaries were called into question, and an Army investigation ensued, THE NEW REPUBLIC has failed to publicly account for publishing slanderous falsehoods about the U.S. military in a time of war.
OOPS !! …
I guess the editors of the TNR have learned nothing from the Stephen Glass fiasco. If liberals had any knowledge of the military, they would have questioned immediately Private Beachamp’s fabricated tales of U. S. Army soldiers running down dogs in their Armored Bradley Fighting Vehicles. Do you know how difficult this task would have been? These vehicles don’t have the steering agility of a Toyota Camry.
This whole sorry episode of slandering American troops during a time of war is another example of left wing agenda journalism at work. It reminds me of the fraudulent photograph of  Army soldiers raping Iraqi women that the Boston Globe was so quick to put on their front page a couple of years ago, despite all the normal editorial red flags that the doctored photo presented.
Editorial judgment, rudimentary due diligence and prudence were all cast aside for one simple reason: members of the Globe’s editorial staff as good liberals ran the photograph because they wanted it to be true. If it would embarrass the Bush Administration, the risks of the photo’s authenticity were greatly outweighed by the political damage it would accomplish.
A more recent indicia of left wing bias in the mainstream media is the complete absence of stories about the indisputable decline in violence in Iraq. It’s OK for the MSM to trumpet loudly and repeatedly stories of American military setbacks in Iraq, but when the strategy changes and tangible tactical benefits are apparent, these facts collectively have engender a collective yawn on the part of most journalists.
And perhaps, most tellingly, the “newspaper of record” declined to report the story of the family of deceased Navy Seal receiving the Medal of Honor posthumously for their son’s selfless act of heroism in Afghanistan. Countless stories of “torture”  at Abu Ghrabib and Guantanamo —prominently featured on the front page — yet the story of bravery under fire, was deemed by the New York Times, as news not fit to print.
 
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
By Johnny K