"My dad died in Iraq!" - University paper hoaxed by 8 year old!

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  1. Orson

    Orson New Member

    The student newspaper at SIU was hoaxed by an 8 year old, claiming her dad had died in Iraq, for two years.

    "CARBONDALE, Ill. - Kodee Kennings’ story was pure gold. For nearly two years, the motherless 8-year-old spoke and wrote movingly of her struggle to deal with her soldier father being shipped off to fight in Iraq, and Southern Illinois University’s student newspaper chronicled her thoughts in its pages.

    "But there was no Kodee Kennings, and the elaborate hoax exposed Friday left The Daily Egyptian embarrassed.
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    "A 2004 SIU graduate who posed as Kodee’s guardian says she and a former Daily Egyptian editor concocted the story to help his career. He denies that and says he was duped, too."

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050826/ap_on_re_us/student_newspaper_hoax
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    It seems the New York Times' reporter Jayson Blair has company - or did the former just inspire the latter?

    Or don't they teach fact-checking anymore?
    (But it's so tear-jerking...!)

    -Orson
     
  2. Guest

    Guest Guest

    Only if pro-Bush, pro-American, and pro-Christianity!
     
  3. Bruce

    Bruce Moderator

    Re: Re: "My dad died in Iraq!" - University paper hoaxed by 8 year old!

    Yup.
     
  4. Orson

    Orson New Member

    THEY PROTECT THEIR OWN...

    MORE amazingly, the Associated Press imagines that the above hoax was a PRO-WAR one!

    They avoid detailing the substance of "Kendee's" letters - but imply the hoax was perpetrated as some sort of pro-war propaganda:

    "Kim Treger, owner of a women's shoe and accessories store, said she followed the story from the start but was not surprised to learn it was fake.

    "'As long as people dig those sentimental stories and have that yellow-ribbon mentality, there are going to be these hoaxes,' she said."
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/26/AR2005082600917.html
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    Either this reporter didn't read these columns or didn't care what they said.

    Outline of excerpts here:
    http://www.mudvillegazette.com/archives/003444.html

    -Orson
     
  5. Anthony Pina

    Anthony Pina Active Member

    Re: THEY PROTECT THEIR OWN...

    Oh please! Someone at the Associated Press must be having a flashback to a bad acid trip if they imagine that there was any motivation for this fraud other than to create anti-Bush propaganda.
     

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