First CBS falls prey to the obviously slanted reporting from a fake news organization, and then the NYT does the exact same thing.
Two years ago, CBS "60 Minutes" linked a chicken farm in Georgia to terrorists. Turns out the source of the organization: SITE or Search for International Terrorist Entities, is a bogus front funded by pro-Bush War on Terror backers.
But irony of irony, To-day, after a huge story on pre packaged fake news they did it again. in the same issue!!!
In a discussion of this fake group's study of press releases from Al Quaeda, Rita Katz comments.
"I think they feel they are losing the battle," said Rita Katz, director of the SITE Institute, an American nonprofit group that monitors Islamist Web sites and news operations. "They realize there will be a new government soon, and they seem very nervous about the future."
A little Googling revealed that SITE, is an "news" organization with all the credibility of Talon News. SITE consists of Rita Katz and Josh Devon. They are only cited on NationalReview Online, or Fox News, and one of the partners has been hand picked by Bush to man lots of posts on Homeland Security and other Bush organizations. Look at the site and you'll see a PR job website that dresses as a real organization. All this scrollinbg news stories are progress in the WOT. There is no critical thinking or punditry. Just a big ra-ra site.
Mrs. Katz wrote a book
Katz's book pretends to be a history. Strange history. For example, she misses by almost a full half-year the date when a notorious terrorist leader left the United States and returned to the Middle East. That error is an astounding one for an "expert."
The book appears to have two purposes -- to broadly link outspoken domestic Muslim and Arab groups with Osama bin Laden, and to undermine the FBI.
Rita Katz accused a chicken farm in Georgia of being associated with terrorists and they aired this segment on 60 Minutes two years ago. Turns out Rita Katz wrote a book that purportedly makes her a terrorism expert because she donned a burka and infiltrated a meeting.
Steven Emerson, a fake journalist who lied to Congress and to the FBI had teamed up with Rita Katz, a women who claims to have donned a burka and spied on terrorists running a chicken farm in Georgia.
And newspapers wonder why they lose readership. Because they've lost credibility. When facts are a commodity, or things that can be manufactured without question, then you you see how what we do here is more important than we may ever know.