Jamil found?
Has the Associated Press found its Stephen Glass? Two days after I finally comment on the Jamil Hussein controversy, it looks like Jamil Hussein may have finally been located. Whether this is good or bad for the AP depends on whether they can focus the story on his existence or on their own journalism. It does make it easier to determine if the stories that relied on him as a source are truthful or merely truthy.
In response to The big lie and the Associated Press: One reason that bigger lies go undetected is that they’re harder to verify.
- Jamil Hussein Located For Real?
- “So we can now upgrade this from a false story from a source that no one can find to a false story from a source that has finally turned up after months of public ridicule and a screwup by a government that is, in their defense, only a couple years old.”
- Game On: AP Claims Jamil Hussein Is Real, Faces Arrest
- “So it appears Jamil Hussein may be real. Good. that means there is a real person to question regarding 61 mostly uncorroborated stories provided as exclusives by Hussein to the Associated Press.”
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