Friday, September 28, 2012

The editors who vouched for Janet Cooke must have approved this story

This is one of the worst example of journalism these days.  A story about Hizbullah based on two sources: one is:  "a Lebanese government official allied with a political bloc opposed to Hezbollah".  This of course is Hariri tool, Ashraf Rifi (director-general of the Internal Security Forces and a board member of Prince Nayif University for Security Sciences and Torture).  Can you imagine the Post writing a story about Israel based on sources in Iran??  Oh, they have a second source for the story: a citizen (with no official capacity whatsoever) with a known right-wing agenda opposed to Hizbullah.  Now, I am not saying that Hizbullah is not involved in Syria.  I am saying that the evidence in the story is a joke.  Would the Post write a story on the Syrian opposition citing only sources in the Syrian regime?