"Fake but Inaccurate"

Reuters is Toast. Their credibility is making the final circles around the drain as it heads down to the sewage treatment plant.

Now we have a case of the "massacre" that wasn't. Reuters was all over the story even getting quotes with specific information about this "massacre" from locals.

In Reuters initial reporting of the story we got this;

Lebanon's prime minister, choking back tears, demanded a "quick and decisive ceasefire" on Monday after an Israeli air raid that he said killed more than 40 civilians sheltering from fighting in a southern village.

However, AP noted this;

The Lebanese prime minister says only one person died in an Israeli air raid on the southern village of Houla, lowering the death toll from 40.

Kim Priestap at Wizbang notes;

So, does Reuters report this new information? At first. According to Dinocrat, Reuters mentioned that the prime minister revised the number down to one. However, in its most recent report, Reuters drops the reference to the airstrike all together and refiles it as if the prime minister said nothing about 40 dead civilians. The newest version still has the Lebanese PM "choking back tears" but this time about civilian suffering in general....

... So why didn't Reuters in its most recent filing just acknowledge that PM Siniora incorrectly reported the number of Lebanese killed instead of pretending like the prime minister never mentioned the attack? Is it that it just didn't make Israel look as bad so it wasn't worth mentioning anymore?

Dinocrat also asks how Reuters got the statements and reactions from the Houla residents which were published in its original report:

How then did Reuters get the reactions from the residents of that village, Houla, who said they feared that up to 60 people had been killed, and identified them as children and shepherds? Did they get that information from their Hezbollah handlers and allies? You may believe any story from Reuters / Hezbollah at your peril.

The liberal bias from the MSM just keeps getting worse. Now they're getting sloppy to boot. No matter how you slice this, Reuters seems to have multiple cases of journalistic malpractice on their hands. Don't hold your breath waiting for the MSM to do any real investigative reporting into these incidents from Reuters. Even though there are aspects to this story worthy of a Pulitzer, perhaps even a major motion picture they won't do it. It just might reveal too many dark secrets about the MSM they'd rather keep from being exposed.

Hell, the MSM is hardly reporting the incidents themselves. Qana has all but disappeared from the radar screen now that serious questions have been raised that it may have been staged & the death toll was dramatically revised downward. Now that at least two of Adnan Hajj's photo's have been found to be fraudulent, Reuters has pulled all 920 of his photo's from their files & that includes his photos from the now forgotten Qana incident.

They must be as dumb as they think we are. At least this blogger isn't fooled.