harry <
harry...@btinternet.com> posted
>On Friday, 20 November 2015 18:43:18 UTC, Big Les Wade wrote:
>> >>
>> >> No. I don't even know whether any women have been killed. Nor do you.
>> >> The difference is, I know it.
>> >>
>> >Well if you're interested check it out from another source.
>> >
>> >Well damn.
>> >Here it is in the Telegraph as well.
>> >
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-politics/12000148/Islamic-State-
>> >sex-slaves-Sinjar-mass-graves-show-what-were-fighting.html
>>
>> That's an opinion piece, not a source. It relies on exactly the same
>> assertions as the Breitbart piece.
>>
>> You remind me of the man who read a news story in the Times that he
>> found hard to believe. So he went out and bought another copy, which
>> reassured him because it carried exactly the same story.
>>
>> >Like all shit-fer-brains socialists you don't want to hear the truth
>> >about your muslim friends.
>>
>> I don't judge "the truth" on the basis of whom I hate. But if you think
>> that is a good way of making rational decisions, I can't stop you. And
>> you can certainly comfort yourself that you're in the majority.
>>
>
>So tell us all where you get your superior information from?
My 'superior information', such as it is, comes from studies showing
that people engaged in one side of a military conflict often invent or
exaggerated atrocity stories about the other side.
This doesn't mean that all atrocity stories are false but it does mean
you have to treat them with appropriate scepticism. In particular always
apply the cui bono test.
>Or is it that if it doesn't fit in with your lefty looney views, it
>hasn't happened?
>
>I 'spect you don't believe the Rotherham rapes happened either?
>
>You live in a comfortable little world entirely of your own make
>believe with your head right up your arse?
>
>Oh look, it's even in the Guardian.
>
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/15/iraq-yazidi-mass-grave-sinj
>ar-kocho
Have you ever wondered about the channels by which such stories found
their way into the Western press? If you actually read them, you'll find
that the Breitbart story is cribbed from the Guardian story (it even
cites it, which they don't always do) and the Guardian story is nothing
to do with the Guardian, it's a syndicated story from the Reuters news
agency to which the Guardian foreign desk subscribes for its Middle
Eastern coverage.
The Telegraph article is just a comment piece, as I said. But the
Telegraph's news report on this (by the fairly well-known Middle Eastern
freelance Sofia Barbarani) at
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/11997164/Mass-g
raves-of-Yazidi-women-found-near-Sinjar.html
contains several tell-tale phrases that overlap *verbatim* with the
Reuters copy. That can't happen by accident; either she cribbed her
report from Reuters, or Reuters cribbed it from her, or (also possible)
she actually wrote the story for Reuters.
So your three supposedly independent sources have collapsed into one.
Exactly like the guy who buys two copies of the Times to double-check
that the news stories are true.
Every single time the original report is copied into a new medium, any
inaccuracies, lies or exaggeration it contained are copied with it. So
none of these copies corroborate the original report even if it is
copied a billion times. If the original story was tainted, then so are
*all* the copies, in whatever medium.
--
Les