Silly NYTimes, real news stories aren't for you!

[lasersailor184]

Whoops.  NYTimes got caught with it's pants down and stuff flapping in the wind.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/14/international/middleeast/14iraq.html?ei=5065&en=854d15b4d2ed6207&ex=1135227600&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print

By DEXTER FILKINS

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Dec. 13 - Less than two days before nationwide elections, the Iraqi border police seized a tanker on Tuesday that had just crossed from Iran filled with thousands of forged ballots, an official at the Interior Ministry said.

The tanker was seized in the evening by agents with the American-trained border protection force at the Iraqi town of Badra, after crossing at Munthirya on the Iraqi border, the official said. According to the Iraqi official, the border police found several thousand partly completed ballots inside.

The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly, said the Iranian truck driver told the police under interrogation that at least three other trucks filled with ballots had crossed from Iran at different spots along the border.

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyid=2005-12-14T104900Z_01_SCH428961_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ-ELECTION-BALLOTS.xml&rpc=22

By Mussab al-Khairalla

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The head of Iraq's border guards denied police reports on Wednesday that a tanker truck stuffed with thousands of forged ballot papers had been seized crossing into Iraq from Iran before Thursday's elections.

"This is all a lie," said Lieutenant General Ahmed al-Khafaji, the chief of the U.S.-trained force which has responsibility for all Iraq's borders.

"I heard this yesterday and I checked all the border crossings right away. The borders are all closed anyway," he told Reuters.

Iraq's frontiers are closed for the period of the election.

"I contacted all the border crossing points and there was no report of any such incident," Khafaji said

[Seagoon]

It's true I tell you! Barbara Streisand said that George Soros heard from Michael Moore that the ballots were manufactured by Diebold in Ohio and shipped in a Haliburton tanker truck. Every single one was a vote for George W. Bush.

[Mickey1992]

Who needs facts when you can rush the story to press and get the scoop and sell more papers!!!!

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by Mickey1992
Who needs facts when you can rush the story to press and get the scoop and sell more papers!!!!

Hell, why not hire reporters who will fabricate stories to sell more newspapers, too!?

[storch]

the US print media is in crisis today,  they are losing subscribers in record numbers.  they are out of touch with the communities they serve.  I haven't picked up a copy of the miami herald in years, apparently this is a national trend.  what they don't seem to understand is a basic fact that any pizza shop owner understands, you have to make it work in your own neighborhood.  the papers generally don't.

[parker00]

Oh no!!! A newspaper that doesn't check it facts before printing the story. This is really new to all of us isn't it? Oh wait they ALL seem to have this problem.

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by parker00
Oh no!!! A newspaper that doesn't check it facts before printing the story. This is really new to all of us isn't it? Oh wait they ALL seem to have this problem.

Its a consistent problem with the new york editorial, er Times...

[parker00]

Originally posted by Ripsnort
Its a consistent problem with the new york editorial, er Times...

Well i just seem to see all of them doing this all the time. Report it now and if it's wrong then we can do a small retration somewhere in the back. People need to learn that all mainstream media has an agenda, most just don't see it.

[GtoRA2]

Originally posted by Ripsnort
Hell, why not hire reporters who will fabricate stories to sell more newspapers, too!?

Isnt Dan  rather looking for work now?