the problem is with bleeding hearts who need to make up an emotional story, not with blogging. Newspapers have not won a war against the people, rather it is people who have proven that it is better to go with the truth then some feminist story...
The gay girl in Damascus confessed to being a 40-year-old American man from Georgia.
The persona he built and cultivated for years — a lesbian who was half Syrian and half American — was a tantalizing Internet-era fiction, one that Tom MacMaster used to bring attention to the human rights record of a country with severe media restrictions that make traditional reporting almost impossible.
via washingtonpost.com
The problem is not people not being reliable. Newspapers are just as unreliable. To answer people's question as to the reliability of truth on the internet getting out there is that this guy got exposed! end of story.
At Washington Post, "‘Paula Brooks,’ editor of ‘Lez Get Real,’ also a man."
And don't miss Jonah Golberg, "The 'Gay Girl in Damascus' hoax is worse than a lie. It's propaganda" (via Instapundit).
The problem is not people not being reliable. Newspapers are just as unreliable. To answer people's question as to the reliability of truth on the internet getting out there is that this guy got exposed! end of story.
At Washington Post, "‘Paula Brooks,’ editor of ‘Lez Get Real,’ also a man."
And don't miss Jonah Golberg, "The 'Gay Girl in Damascus' hoax is worse than a lie. It's propaganda" (via Instapundit).
